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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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Interactive Simulation

This sub-type of video replicates a process, concept, or idea in an immersive way as a sample of what it is or how it works/unfolds. It can be used to give students the opportunity to interact with a situation or process that they would not normally have access to experience.

Low-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

The narrator models the tool while narrating the actions, speaks slowly to allow materials and actions to be digested.

Resources Typically Used

screen recording software and microphone

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

High-Investment Video Example

Teaching Points

The camera angle aligns with description of the simulation and what the simulation can do, points out how the viewer should be paying attention.

Resources Typically Used

video camera, microphone and video editing software

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

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