Creating Educational Video Course Objects for CIRHT Ethiopia

Creating Educational Video Course Objects for CIRHT Ethiopia Chris Chapman, MA Assistant Director H. I. T. S. , Learning Design & Publishing Daniel Rivkin, BA Communications Manager CIRHT

Course Creation - Overview • What is a video course object? • Content creation processes: - Medical - Presentation formatting - Instructional design principles - Editorial & visual style guide - Production (recording) & post-production (as necessary)

Structure of a Video Course Element • • • Topic & Personal introduction Define session objectives Presentation organization Pre-training (key terms and concepts) Presentation Conclusion

Instructional Design Principles

Basic & Applied Research ● How people learn ● How to design effective instruction

Apply these evidence-based techniques to help your learners: • Eliminate non-essential material • Break complex lessons into segments • Highlight the lesson organization for your learner • Provide pre-training (i. e. introduce new vocabulary at the beginning of a lesson) • Use relevant pictures in combination with words (when possible, spoken words) • Use a conversational style

Apply these evidence-based techniques to help your learners: Eliminate non-essential material Break complex lessons into segments Highlight the lesson organization for your learner Provide pre-training (i. e. introduce new vocabulary at the beginning of a lesson) • Use relevant pictures in combination with words (when possible, spoken words) • Use a conversational style • •

What is Instruction (according to Mayer)? 1) Manipulating what the learner experiences 2) With the intention to cause a change in the learner’s knowledge 3) Leading to performance

Cognitive Processing in Multimedia Learning • Essential • Generative • Extraneous

What is Extraneous Processing? - Does NOT support the learning objective(s) - Examples - Scan back and forth on multiple pages - Interesting but non-essential material - Too much information Useful readings: ● Reading 1 ● Reading 2 ● Reading 3 ● Reading 4 ● Reading 5 Entire Procedure, In Real Time: 23 min

What is Essential Processing? • • Rote learning Memorization Organizing Modeling

What is Generative Processing? • Performance • Meaningful learning • Organizing, integrating

Help your Learners REDUCE Extraneous Processing Recommended reading: ● Reading 1 ● Reading 2 ● Reading 3 ● Reading 4 ● Reading 5 Overview: ● Key terms ● Cognitive Processing ● Principles of Learning ● Hands-on Eliminate non-essential material Highlight the lesson organization

Help your Learners MANAGE Essential Processing - Pre-training (define new terms up front) - Break complex lessons into segments - Use spoken words Pretraining Full Video: 23 min Part 1: 2 min Part 2: 8 min Part 3: 7 min Part 4: 8 min

Help Your Learners FOSTER Generative Processing • Use words and relevant pictures • Personalization: use a conversational rather than formal style

Apply these evidence-based techniques help your learners: • Reduce • Segment • Highlight • Pre-train • Images • Personalization

Editorial & Visual Style Guide

Editorial Principles • • • Consistency Template Language Terms Speling capitalization Acronym usage

Visual elements • Formatting • Images • Copyright

Production!

Camtasia

When recording… • • • Scripted or notes Conversational style Enunciate First and second person Sharing v. presenting Engaging v. entertaining

Production Process • • Introduction – can be on camera Speaking over slides in real time Can add animation and highlights Can edit or re-take segments or the entire presentation

Let’s Go!

Check list Lesson structure • • • Topic & Personal introduction Define session objectives Highlight the lesson organization for your learner Provide pre-training Body Conclusion Design Principles • • • Break complex lessons into segments Relevant pictures in combination with words (when possible, spoken words) Eliminate non-essential material Use a conversational style Consistency (template, font, terms, acronyms)