%% #📓 #📢 #🟠 %% **Title:** Lean-Forward Learning: Making Educational Videos More Engaging **Author:** Jeff Rubenstein **Citation:** Rubenstein, J. (2021). *Lean-forward learning: Making educational videos more engaging* [Video]. Kaltura. https://corp.kaltura.com/resources/webinars/lean-forward-learning-americas/?onDemand --- # Abstract ~ 3 Sentence Summary ## Author's Purpose # Notes & Important Ideas - Video critical aspect of learning, especially since COVID-19 pandemic - Challenge = video feels like television - Viewer leans back, relaxes, doesn't pay full attention - lean-back passive mode - Don't learn something, but think you did - Need to transform video learning from lean-back to lean-forward, active and engaging experience - Need to force attention of students - attention = most valuable commodity in teaching and most rare, hardest to capture - magicians are great at moving attention around - Ways to capture attention with pre-recorded videos 1. In-video Quiz - Video pauses at specific timecode and a question or prompt pops up - Various question types - Observation (frame) - what do you observe in this particular frame? - Observation (technique) - what technique is being used in this scene? - Assessment - how is the person in the video doing? - Order - did they do something in the right order? - Prediction - what do you think is going to happen next? 2. Hotspots - Put buttons in the video that can: - Go forward or back in the video - Jump to another video - Open a document - Open a webpage 3. Paths - Choose your own adventure - Ways to capture attention with live video - synchronous virtual meeting/webinar 1. Sharing documents or whiteboards and have students annotate them 2. Showing videos as pretext to discussion 3. Quizzes and polls # Personal Revelations --- # Other References ## Tags [[Learning]]