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Five benefits to utilizing video in educational lessons
1. Student Engagement
Videos have been known to hold the attention of viewers. People "binge" watch TV shows for hours on end and it often feels like hardly any time at all has passed. The Sage Whitepaper, Assessing the Impact of Educational Video on Student Engagement, Critical Thinking and Learning: The Current State of Play by Michael Carmichael et al, states, "There is recent evidence to suggest that the incorporation of a video within a course framework can influence students' motivations to engage with course materials" (10).
2. Deeper Understanding
According to the same Carmichaek, et al article, "(video has the) ability to provide broader context and visual detail that can help develop a fuller understanding of the topics concerned" (11). Personally, we can see this through the plethora of online ho-to videos on Youtube.
3. Student Confidence
Seeing something actually take place instead of having to create the visuals removes a lot of the guess-work and self-doubt. Carmichael, et al states "evidence suggests that the act of watching a video-modelling where an instructor performs a task has shown to increase the confidence in students in believing they could also perform the same task" (13).
4. Accommodation for Learning Styles
According to the Emily Cruse article, Using Educational Video in the Classroom: Theory, Research and Practice, "There are three primary modalities through which people take in information:
visual, auditory and tactile" (5). Utilizing multiple delivery methods simultaneously can reach more learners effectively.
5. Reinforces Material
Typically a video is played to add depth to an objective or topic that has already been introduced. Te video naturally reinforces what has been introduced, l;earned or discussed previously.
Relationship between video prompts, self-regulation and metacognition
The Janet Sedgley doctoral dissertation, Video Prompts for Self-regulated Learning: Metacognition, and Reflection Activity, discusses the relationship between video prompts, self-regulation and metacognition. The study found that students were more apt to regularly use and complete Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) when video prompts were uses in place of text prompts. Sedgley stated, "video prompts are proposed as a way to provide humanlike and consistent prompts in an online learning environment for SRL and metacognitive monitoring and their activation" (5) and "The use of video prompts reflects New Media Consortium’s assertion that the new concept of language includes multimodal, visual, and auditory elements and immediacy (10). Ultimately, utilizing these video prompts brings a deeper, broader-reaching experience to students. Since they are engaged on many different levels including visual and auditory, they are more engaged and effectively perform better.
Jeremy,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed your TED-Ed and EDpuzzle projects. I think they were both well done and would be a great assets to the appropriate course. I always enjoyed watching science experiments and I think a platform like TED-Ed is a great way to be able to show students even more experiments than time allows in a class.
Out of your five benefits, I don't think we can stress how much video lessons can accommodate different learning styles. We know students learn differently and being able to offer alternative learning styles in a course means more students have a chance to be successful. Also, I think a deeper understandig is another one of your benefits I believe is a great positive. With large class sizes and only so much in class time for students, being able to offer a learning alternative to expand what students learn in class is an amazing benefit and a great way for students to truly have a deeper understanding of course content.
Great job!