Abstract

Instructional video is a common staple for delivering content in online courses. However, if the included videos are not properly created, many students will skip the video and its content. Improving instructional video has been the topic of many research projects, and we can learn from these studies how to create effective and engaging instructional videos--this is the topic of my dissertation. The first paper is an extended literature review that examines which key instructional design principles are supported in the literature. This helps developers to know which principles to focus on when designing video. The second paper is a practitioner's guide for redesigning instructional video. It details the lessons learned during an evaluation and redesign project completed on an online course. It categorizes the various videos, based on the evaluation data, into three different levels depending on the amount of work required to redesign each. This explains how developers can realize some improvement with a minimum amount of effort and which practices to use when a full reshoot is required. The final paper is a quantitative research paper that looks at the impact of adding bookmarks to the videos of an online course. Analytic data was collected on a semester of students before and after the bookmarks were added and using this data we graphed the number of times each video was watched, re-watched, and abandoned before being completed. We also compared the video usage to how often the reading was done for each lesson. This data will help video designers determine if this improvement helped make the videos more valuable to the students.

Degree

PhD

College and Department

David O. McKay School of Education; Instructional Psychology and Technology

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