Abstract
Instructional videos, like movies genres, can have various styles and purposes. This chapter focuses on the six main categories of instructional videos used in higher education and training. Each category is analyzed by breaking it down into its components and then discussed using examples from online courses.
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For more information, see their website: http://www.thegreatcourses.com
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For more information, see their website: http://ocw.mit.edu/
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This will be discussed further in the next chapter.
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See Sect. 2.1. (“Theoretical Background”) in the present work.
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See Chap. 4.
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Certain providers, such as Mediasite, give both a video and slide stream that can be navigated separately by the user. For more information, see their website: http://www.sonicfoundry.com/mediasite
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Examples include Open English and TutorGroup; for more information visit http://www.openenglish.com and http://www.tutorgroup.net, respectively.
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The term “edutainment,” similar to the term “infotainment,” describes content that incorporates both entertainment and educational components. For more information, see: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/edutainment
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An example of this is the edX platform. For more information, see: http://www.edx.org
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This storytelling method is offered by the media company Interlude and their Treehouse software. For more information, see: http://www.interlude.fm. For the interactive video offerings by Hapyak, see: www.hapyak.com
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Köster, J. (2018). Instructional Videos for Teaching and Learning. In: Video in the Age of Digital Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93937-7_3
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