Effective Educational Videos: Principles and Guidelines for maximizing student learning from video content

Active Learning

Cognitive Load

Use Signaling to highlight important information

Use Segmenting to chunk information

Use Weeding to eliminate extraneous information

Match modality by using auditory and visual channels to convey complementary information

Can reduce Extraneous Load

Reduces Extraneous load

Can enhance germane load.

Manages intrinsic load

Student Engangement

Keep each video brief

Increases percentage of each video that students watch may increase total watch time.

Use Conversational Language

Creates a sense of social partnership between student and instructor, prompting the student to try harder to make sense of lesson

Speak relatively quickly and with entusiasm

May increase sense of social partnership between student and instructor

Create package videos to emphasize relevance to the course in which thy are used

May increase germane cognitive load by helping students recognize connections.

Packaging video with Interactive questions

May increase germane cognitive
load

Use Interactive features that give students control

Increases students ownership and may increase germane cognitive load.

Use guiding questions

May increase germane cognitive load, reduce extraneous cognitive load, and improve student self-assessment.

Make video part of a larger homework assignment

May increase student motivation, germane cognitive load, and student self-assessment.