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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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Course, lesson, module or unit

This sub-type of video introduces a course, lesson, module, or unit.

Low-Investment Video Type

Teaching Points

The script used to engage attention and focus student thoughts on what will be covered in the course, lesson, module or unit.

Resources Typically Used

one-button studio, video and image editing software

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

High-Investment Video Type

Teaching Points

The video is visually appealing, gives brief introduction of the course and gives an actual video of the instructor for students to connect a face to the many emails they will receive.

Resources Typically Used

video camera, lighting, lavaliere microphone and video editing software

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

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