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Types of Instructional Video

West Chester University Teaching and Learning Center

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This brief article includes a theoretical basis for looking at instructional video styles and then provides quick overviews of the common video formats. It will help you narrow in on a style that will work best for your specific context.

Human presence in an instructional video is important. Using a human voice as compared to a digital voice improves student learning and including a human in at least some of a video is better than not including any human embodiment at all (Mayer, 2019).

Decisions about what types of instructional media to include in a video are dependent on your instructional goals, your level of video creation expertise, and the resources you have available for video creation. For example, it is relatively easy to use a smartphone to record yourself talking; however, that may not be the best method for conveying a complex structural diagram. Keeping in mind your goals, expertise, and resources, review these different video styles to identify the format or combination of formats which would work best for your specific video creation situation.

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