Digital education reading group: June 2022
The theme for this month’s digital education reading group is inspired by a question asked on Twitter about what makes a good educational video:
Question for online educators – what’s the latest science on whether the educator’s face on teaching videos they make is associated with a) learning and b) satisfaction?
As universities switch rapidly to teaching online, video is widely being used without much thought, and with questionable results for students. Here at UoL our studio is closed and our subject matter experts are preparing to record their videos, audios and presentations at home. It’s a lot of additional work to organise, and is the effort worth it? Will the recordings actually help students learn?
Resources
This is a huge area so we’re going to discuss the value of the type of videos common in UoL courses – where the instructor is usually on screen. All of the resources are available in the Online Library.
Fiorella, L. et al. (2019) ‘Instructor Presence in Video Lectures: The Role of Dynamic Drawings, Eye Contact, and Instructor Visibility’, Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(7), pp. 1162–1171. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/EDU0000325
Mayer, R. E., Moreno, R., Boire, M., & Vagge, S. (1999). ‘Maximizing constructivist learning from multimedia communications by minimizing cognitive load’, Journal of Educational Psychology, 91(4), 638–643. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-0663.91.4.638
Nielsen, J. (2005) Talking-Head Video Is Boring Online, Nielsen Norman Group logoNielsen Norman Group. Available at: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/talking-head-video-is-boring-online
Wang, J. and Antonenko, P.D. (2017) ‘Instructor presence in instructional video: Effects on visual attention, recall, and perceived learning’, Computers in Human Behavior, 71, pp. 79–89. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.CHB.2017.01.049
Wilson, K.E. et al. (2018) ‘Instructor presence effect: Liking does not always lead to learning’, Computers & Education, 122, pp. 205–220. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.COMPEDU.2018.03.011
Xie, H. et al. (2019) ‘Coordinating visual and auditory cueing in multimedia learning’, Journal of Educational Psychology, 111(2), pp. 235–255. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1037/EDU0000285
List of topics discussed at previous meetings
