Digital Learning Blog

Book Bytes Vlog - Episode 03

September 17, 2020  / Instructional Design Team 

Book Title: 99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos: A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes by Karen Costa


What is the topic? 

  • Teacher presence, media integration, and online scaffolding

 Why the topic is important?

  • Building regular, positive, and interactive relationships with students is the key to a successful online learning experience (Jaggers & Xu, 2016).
  • Using video for tutorials, models, and feedback creates a multi-dimensional communication platform that encourages students to persist (validates students).
  • Save instructor time and effort in otherwise text heavy online courses.

 Who can use this information?

  • Faculty and instructors teaching
    • Online
    • F2F
    • Hybrid

 Top 3 takeaways

  • Be human and engaging.
  • Tell students the purpose of the video.
  • Use videos for answering challenging questions.

Faculty can read the entire eBook through the FGCU library.

99 Tips for Creating Simple and Sustainable Educational Videos:A Guide for Online Teachers and Flipped Classes (Karen Costa)