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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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Explain/Tell

Description of Video Type

This type of video is used for explaining course content, lessons, and activities to students.

Sub-Types

  1. Concept or theory in a lecture – The instructor (or agent of the instructor) explores the concept or theory and key related ideas. Used for content delivery or reinforcement at the knowledge and comprehension level.
  2. By interviewing an expert – Showing a question and answer session or conversation with an expert regarding a particular concept or topic. Highlighting the expert’s experience or expertise and/or point of view, at the knowledge and comprehension.
  3. Timeline of event – Showing how topic items are related in a linear, time-based format.
  4. Tour or field trip – A guide to explain what people are seeing during an experience outside of the classroom and how it’s related to the course content.
  5. Lesson, Unit, Module overview/summary – Previewing course concepts that will be covered in the upcoming lessons. Providing a summary or recap of key points that were covered in the lessons.
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