Pedagogy Pitstop: 3 Ways to Incorporate Video into Your Curriculum

In our previous newsletter, Professor Kiandra Johnson provided examples of how she integrates videos made using Techsmith Relay into her instruction. Academic video can be used many ways in the classroom, not only to pre-record lessons for a flipped classroom experience. Here are a few suggestions for incorporating video into your curriculum. Click each link to see different samples of how instructors around the globe are incorporating video into their instruction.

  1. Introduce yourself – take the opportunity to allow your students to get to know a little about you before the first day of class by introducing yourself on video.
  2. Record Assessment Guidelines – introduce and explain how rubrics and other grading forms/criteria will be used in your class to students through video.  When the video is published in Moodle you have created a reference resource for students to use while they work on assignments. Common misconceptions and your expectations can be clearly expressed in the video as well. Several examples are listed here.
  3. Record Feedback on Student Work – create a personal teacher- to- student connection to students by recording feedback instead of writing or typing in line of the student’s paper.

Below is a table of BENEFITS of academic video as created by participants in a Click and Go Video workshop taken from the Institute for Teaching and Learning Innovation at The University of Queensland Australia.

  • Video is more appealing
  • Allows me to work outside the classroom and illustrate how theories/techniques can be applied in real life
  • People take in more information when it is presented visually compared with text and voice alone
  • Able to see technical experts / examples / demonstrations
  • It grabs attention, it’s new
  • It adds to the entertainment value
  • Pictures can quickly give information whereas words can take longer

 

 

 

 

  • Student ideally has control
  • Students can re-wind, replay in their own time and at their own speed.
  • Ability to repeat/pause
  • Students can learn anywhere, anytime
  • Can select what is of use
  • Students can view in confidence
  • Greater access to learning for disabled students
  • Provides interactive teaching environment

 

 

  • Allows for dynamic presentations
  • Adds value to text
  • Support for teaching and learning, not instead of
  • To widen participants and address different learning styles
  • Video can work alongside lectures and compliment the students’ module
  • Being able to split video into parts and relate to exercises
  • Integrating with web resources
  • Student support and feedback