When creating educational media, like lecture videos, there are so many things to consider. Here, we try and narrow down a few tangible solutions to help ensure you’re creating the most engaging videos for your students.
While these resources are geared toward instructors, they can be applied to students who aim to build effective educational videos as well.
To learn more about using Kaltura’s tools, please visit one of the following pages.
- Kaltura MediaSpace: organize, publish, and share your media using Carleton’s supported media hosting site.
- Kaltura Personal Capture: record your educational vides using Carleton’s supported screen-recording tool.
- KMS Go: Kaltura’s mobile device application that allows users to upload and access media.
- Kaltura Lecture Capture: record your lecture from Carleton’s classrooms on campus.
Capture Your Students’ Attention
One of the ways you can capture your students’ attention is by ensuring you create lecture material (like videos) that engage them. The are a number of different types of lecture videos and the general advice for creating engaging videos might differ depending on the type of video you indent to create. For example, a Welcome to the Course video might not require screen capture while tutorials would require the screen to be captured but might not require the instructor to be viewed.
The most common type of videos are lecture videos, which benefit from two visual streams: screen share and instructor presence. Note that is possible to record two visual inputs with Carleton’s supported screen recording tool: Kaltura Personal Capture, but your computer needs to meet the requirements.
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Extra Resources
- Guidelines for Recording Remote Class Content
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Instructors may choose to record synchronous remote class sessions. The following guidelines provide insight into when an instructor may with to record classes and instruction on how to do so in a way that is consistent with University policies. Students are prohibited from recording class sessions and are also prohibited from the distribution of class recordings.
Recording of Class Sessions by Instructors
- Recording synchronous online class sessions is appropriate, as recording allows students to review content after class, and provides an opportunity for students who are unable to attend class to view the course.
- When faculty choose to record a synchronous class session, they should communicate this to the students both in writing through the course syllabus and verbally.
- Recordings should be shared only with the students enrolled in the course and should be deleted at the end of the course.
- Recording of synchronous sessions that include student discussion should be given special consideration:
- Instructors may choose to turn off the recording at certain points of the class in order to protect student privacy and eliminate the possibility that recording might stifle discussion, particularly if sensitive content is included in the discussion.
More information, like suggested syllabus language, available at our Web Conferencing at Carleton webpage.
- Providing Feedback
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Sometimes we can spend a lot of time typing out feedback for students regarding their assignments. Whether it’s typing into the review pane using Microsoft Word or using in-line comments right in D2L Brightspace, this typing can become strenuous. Additionally, students spend a lot of time reading. So, it might be that students and instructors alike can benefit from video feedback. Here’s a quick video that demonstrates providing students with feedback using Kaltura:
- More Resources from TLS
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Teaching and Learning Services has many resources online about creating and sharing your educational videos! Be sure to check them out!
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