My group’s subject area is “cooking with confidence” and that’s what I looked up videos for. I found this fantastic online resource where there is this website that through modules, teaches you how to cook new meals. This website and modules are defiantly designed for adults but could be moulded for a younger first-year university demographic. It walks the learner through everything, from what ingredients to buy to how to chop it to how to cook or bake it.
This video is not incredibly interactive. You can either watch it and take notes if you’d like or you can participate and follow the steps however the learning is in the learner’s hands so there are no submissions of any kind. This kind of learning can be really great for some people but most need to be more engaged with the material in order to take something meaningful out of it.
I would suggest that the learner does a video of them cooking the meal. They could also do pictures in the process or a final product picture. Or they could do an interactive quiz where they answer some multiple-choice questions and then answer some written questions to get them to interact and think more about the material.
Students would get feedback on these types of submissions through a written response to the learner for the pictures. Often getting feedback on a quiz is never looked at but hopefully, the learner will have gathered what they needed to from the material to gain the knowledge. Students would get the multiple-choice answers back along with their written answers with a written response by the teacher.
The activity suggested above would be a medium amount of work for me as the learning advisor. It would be going through everyone’s pictures and taking a detailed look at what they created. Or it would be also a decent amount of work- the multiple choice questions could be automatically marked but the written answers would have to be read thoroughly and then give them specific feedback.
Though this would be more time-consuming for the teacher, it would give the students the best opportunity to take their feedback and apply it to future learning experiences.
Hi Ashley! I appreciate your critical lens regarding watching educational videos. Definitely, just watching a video does not equal learning! It does not require any active participation/interaction from students. It’s a great idea to use embedded quizzes. You can make this video interactive (e.g., using the h5p interactive video plugin in WordPress and embedding various interactions into the video itself – https://wordpress.org/plugins/h5p/).