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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
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Experience (Immersion)

Type Description

This type of video is used to provide an opportunity for students to interact with the content of the course (could be academic or cocurricular).

Sub-types

  1. Interactive Simulation – Replicate a process, concept, or idea in an immersive way as a sample of what it is or how it works/unfolds. Used to give students the opportunity to interact with a situation or process that they would not normally have access to experience.
  2. Role Play – Enact with a concept or situation as a sample of a concept or idea. Students or inexperienced actors are used. Debrief on screen as to what happened. Used as an option to try out an idea or concept and the analyze how the outcomes and why is went the way it did.
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