Learning from video
May 18th, 2011 by Frank LaBanca, Ed.D.
My team and I have been talking lately about the notion of teaching videos. “Distance education” processes have been around for a long time, and have manifested in different ways. The challenge for the asynchronous delivery of content is that it be engaging. What does that mean? For a video, engagement might mean:
interactive with the viewer (making the viewer complete a task to be an active, instead of passive, learner)
interactive internally (when two or more people can talk and interact, it makes the video more engaging)
short (too long, tuned out)
specific (content should be very targeted)
robust (include appropriate visual stimuli)
seeing the speaker(s) (there’s something powerful about seeing a person talk and watching the specific content)
This video visually enhances some of this vision:
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