23 Course Media Effective Practice
When creating or finding media for your course, consider these best practices for effective use of media:
- Engaging: Capture your unique perspectives, insight, experiences with the concepts. Share real life anecdotes and examples; tell stories.
- Granular: Pare content down to its essence, in small separate parts.
- Short: Keep media to approximately 6 minutes for Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement
- Modular: Cover one core topic at a time.
- Reusable: Omit information that is likely to become dated, e.g., elements like book chapters or modules in the course.
- High Quality: Make use of a script or outline to guide the presentation.
- Aligned: Relate your media back to the course learning objectives/assignments.
- Sustainable: Present sustainable topics that are not likely to change over time.
Additional Resources
- Recipes to Create Effective Online Videos Lectures (8:25 minutes) Susan Tade (2019). Academic Technology Support Services (ATSS)
- Recipes for Online Video Lectures and Active Learning(4:36 minutes) Nima Salehi (2019) School of Nursing.
- Recipes for Online Teaching: Curated Videos Plus Activities (poster)
- Brame, C.J. (2016) Effective educational videos: Principles and guidelines for maximizing student learning from video content. CBE—Life Sciences Education, 15(4), p.es6.
- Carmichael, M., Reid, A. K., & Karpicke, J. D. (2018). Assessing the Impact of Educational Video on Student Engagement, Critical Thinking and Learning: The Current State of Play. (White Paper). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publishing, Inc.
- Victor, S. & Spencer, T. (March 21, 2018). 3 Cognitive Theories For Transforming Learning. Video-Based Learning. eLearning Industry.
