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Instructional Video Guide

Best practices for creating pedagogically appropriate video

  • Guide
  • Video Types
    • Demonstrate/Show
      • Situation
      • How to do or how someone does a process
      • Apply theory or concept
    • Explain/Tell
      • Concept or theory in a lecture
      • By interviewing an expert
      • Timeline of Events
      • Tour or Field Trip
      • Lesson, Unit, Module Overview/Summary
    • Experience (Immersion)
      • Interactive Simulation
      • Role Play
    • Communicate/ Remediate
      • Provide Feedback
      • Clarify Confusing Information
      • Live Two-Way Q&A Captured for Use Later
      • Summary/Lesson or Unit Review (Dynamic)
    • Introduce/Orient
      • Course, lesson, module or unit
      • Faculty to students
      • Difficult topic
      • Any type of activity
      • Context for course, lesson, module, unit, concept
  • Best Practices
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Clarify Confusing Information

This sub-type of video iIdentifies course content requiring additional instruction and presents information in a new way to ensure understanding. It can be used to help students improve performance by clarifying confusing information.

Low-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

Outlines the learning goals and expectations at the beginning of the lecture, addresses common conceptions of a controversial topic before introducing topic in an academic manner.

Resources Typically Used

PowerPoint and microphone.

Low-Investment Video Example (plays in a new window)

High-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

This video is effective because it shows a simple illustration to show a theory that is contradictory and confounding at first.

Resources Typically Used

Professional studio, script, talent, audio recorder, microphone, custom graphics and video editing software.

High-Investment Video Example (plays in a new window)

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