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**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
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# 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
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# Other References
## Tags
[[Learning]]