Choe | May 15, 2017 OPTIMIZING VIDEO FOR LEARNING A case study-based primer of informal, educational, digital video best practices Elizabeth Choe1 Last updated and published: May 15, 2017 1Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Correspondence:
[email protected] Copyright: © Choe 2017. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License, which allows unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium as long as the original author and source are credited. Suggested citation: Choe, Elizabeth, Optimizing Video for Learning: A Case Study-Based Primer of Informal, Educational, Digital Video Best Practices (May 15, 2017). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2909769 Optimizing Video for Learning: A case study-based primer for informal, educational, digital video best practices !1 Choe | May 15, 2017 INTRODUCTION The expertise and work around educational video is often siloed. This paper attempts to connect those dots through case studies of existing videos. igital video has exploded as an educational tool in amateur do-it-yourself-ers, universities, commercial media/ D the last decade, with Massive Open Online Courses news entities, broadcast networks, and corporations, whose (MOOCs) launching in the mid-2000s and platforms like expertise and interests can range from the content itself, to YouTube, Facebook, Google Hangouts, Periscope, and marketing and communications, to video production, plus, Meerkat that increasingly lower the barrier to video best practices haven’t been fully defined in the digital age. production and distribution. Since its launch in 2005, As YouTuber Hank Green says, YouTube has become one of the most popular sites of all time (Welbourne and Grant 2015), with over half of its adult Most people who are trained in video users reporting that they use it to watch educational videos creation are trained with TV and film in mind.