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Effective Educational Videos - Coggle Diagram
Effective Educational Videos
Consideration of three elements for video design and implementation can help instructors maximize video’s utility in the biology classroom.
Cognitive load
Suggests that any learning experience has three components:
The first of these is intrinsic load: which is inherent to the subject under study and is determined in part by the degrees of connec- tivity within the subject.
The second component of any learning experience is germane load, which is the level of cognitive activity necessary to reach the desired learning outcome.
The third component of a learning experience is extraneous load, which is cognitive effort that does not help the learner toward the desired learning outcome.
Student engagement
The most important guideline for maximizing stu- dent attention to educational video is to keep it short.
The personalization principle by Mayer, the use of conversational rather than formal language during multimedia instruction has been shown to have a large effect on students’ learning, perhaps because a conversational style encourages students to develop a sense of social partnership with the narrator that leads to greater engagement and effort.
Instructors can also promote student engagement with edu- cational videos by creating or packaging them in a way that conveys that the material is for these students in this class.
Active learning
Package Video with Interactive Questions:
Interpolated questions may improve student learning from video through several mechanisms.
Use Interactive Features That Give Students Control:
This not only has the benefit of giving students control but also can demonstrate the organization, increasing the germane load of the lesson.
Use Guiding Questions:
This strategy is often used to increase student learning from reading assignments, and it can translate effectively to helping students learn from video.
Make Video Part of a Larger Homework Assignment:
The important thing to keep in mind is that watching a video can be a passive experience, much as reading can be. To make the most of our educational videos, we need to help students do the processing and self-evaluation that will lead to the learning we want to see.
