6 Best Practices for Video Lessons

Purpose & objective

Attendees will learn about recent research regarding effective instructional videos and how these findings can be translated into practice. We will also look at the differences in what works best for students with disabilities and English language learners.

Attendees will learn six specific strategies that they can use in recording, selecting, and/or editing videos for use in their classrooms. Additional information will be shared about free tools that educators can use to edit videos, including embedding questions.

Technology interventions: YouTube and Edpuzzle (a free video lesson platform that allows teachers and students to edit videos, embed questions, add notes, and more)

Supporting research

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Brame, C.J. (2015). Effective educational videos. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved September 27, 2021, from https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/effective-educational-videos/
Guo, P.J., Kim, J., & Rubin, R. (2014, March). How video production affects student engagement: An empirical study of MOOC videos [Research Article]. Association for Computing Machinery Conference on Learning at Scale, Atlanta, GA, United States. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556325.2566239
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Wang, J., Dawson, K., Saunders, K., Ritzhaupt, A. D., Antonenko, P., Lombardino, L., Keil, A., Agacli-Dogan, N., Luo, W., Cheng, L., & Davis, R. O. (2018). Investigating the Effects of Modality and Multimedia on the Learning Performance of College Students with Dyslexia. Journal of Special Education Technology, 33(3), 182–193.