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Enhancing Course Engagement with Videos: Tools, Tips, and Strategies

Discover how to enrich your course content using videos to boost interest and stimulate student imagination. Videos are a powerful medium that connects with various learning styles, provides diverse perspectives, and helps to demonstrate abstract concepts. Learn practical methods for incorporating video, such as uploading directly to your course or using platforms like Kaltura or YouTube to avoid quota issues. Get tips for creating effective video assignments and strategies for promoting active engagement, ensuring your students have a meaningful viewing experience.

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Enhancing Course Engagement with Videos: Tools, Tips, and Strategies

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  1. Adding Video to your Course Tools & Tips

  2. Why? • Generate interest & stimulate imagination • Video is a powerful, engaging medium • Engage with multiple learning styles • Provide varied perspectives • Demonstrate abstract ideas • Connect to inaccessible locales • Promote critical viewing / media awareness

  3. How? • Upload video directly to course • Takes up a lot of your quota (300mb) • Have to deal with file types, player size, etc. • Use Kaltura or Youtube Mash Up • Doesn’t count against class quota • Easier to work with • Own personal library of content • Looks good from student perspective • Embed other web video • Copy/Paste embed code • Doesn’t look as “slick” as a mash up.

  4. It’s DEMO TIME!

  5. Tips • Keep it short & focused & current • Keep it relevant • Avoid the “Television Effect” • Promote active viewing • Direct student attention • Require specific deliverables • Use “controversial” images • Challenge students’ preconceptions • Introduce the video • Tie an assignment to video content

  6. Ideas for Use • Provide a focused viewing assignmenti.e. directed viewing • What should students watch for? • How should they engage with the video? • Break longer pieces into shorter section • Module intro videos to generate interest • Pre & post viewing writing assignments (Discussions, Blogs, Journals, etc.) • Weekly announcements, reinforce the personal connection • Student created reaction videos

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