Today’s Education Dive has a nice synopsis (with additional sources, check those out as well) on how incorporating video – presumably both live and recorded – can help with maintaining access to learning materials due to unexpected disruptions. In particular, the article cites examples of the suddenly implemented U.S. travel ban of a few weeks ago, influenza outbreaks on campuses and rapidly spreading wildfires as examples of disruptions that have impacted instructors and learners over the past few years. Of course, access to rich media presupposes that: (1) the media assets or tools to create / manage / stream exist already and are available for use and; (2) the instructors and learners have reliable access to high-speed broadband.The one point we’d add from our experiences at Junction is that in times of disruption mobile access – primarily via phones and tablets – to a complete learning experience, preferably with similar UI and UX as on
The one point we’d add from our experiences at Junction is that in times of disruption mobile access – primarily via phones and tablets – to a complete learning experience, preferably with similar UI and UX as on web, minimizes impediments to access for all constituents. With respect to video, our research shows that even absent disruptions students spend as much time watching topic and learning objective aligned video as they do reading textbook content. That’s why all Junction courses are video rich (with closed captions!) and include an instructor option to enable real-time video office hours for live instruction or collaboration with a group of students who either need additional support, desire enrichment or – as in the case of the article below – are negatively impacted by some exogenous factors or events.A dozen years post YouTube,
A dozen years post YouTube, video is not only here to stay but becoming a growing piece of the overall teaching and learning puzzle.
