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.