{"id":3852,"date":"2019-06-01T12:57:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T11:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/?p=3852"},"modified":"2019-11-22T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:43:19","slug":"taking-a-strategic-approach-to-teaching-faculty-how-to-create-their-own-educational-video-in-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/type\/featured-articles\/taking-a-strategic-approach-to-teaching-faculty-how-to-create-their-own-educational-video-in-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking a strategic approach to teaching faculty how to create their own educational video in MIT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MITx delivers massive open online courses, via\nedX, which MIT founded with Harvard University in 2012. MITx courses are\ndeveloped and taught by MIT instructors with the aim\nof&nbsp;enhancing&nbsp;on-campus education,&nbsp;expanding access to quality\neducational opportunities worldwide, and advancing the understanding of\nteaching and learning through research. As of June 2019, more than\n7.9&nbsp;million learners worldwide&nbsp;have accessed MITx content. The MITx\nMedia Team works with faculty and course teams to\nleverage media in their online courses. The team has led the charge in\nexploring media usage in MOOCs, moving away from straight classroom lecture\ncapture to innovative uses of animation, on location shoots and interviews in\norder to engage learners better. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early on, many faculty wanted to create their own video for their MOOCs. With the sophistication of 4k video recording from iPhones and Androids to online video tutorials, &nbsp;faculty felt they had all the tools they needed to create video content. Even edX built an online course called Creating Video for the edX Platform. Geared towards educational professionals with little to no video experience, VideoX taught how to produce video content, specifically focusing on the do it yourself approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3856\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-370x278.jpg 370w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-570x428.jpg 570w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-740x555.jpg 740w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/videox.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption> <br>VideoX: Creating Video for the edX Platform <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>After 6 years, MITx learned many lessons along the way. We\u2019ve learned while some video content lends itself to faculty creating their own, there needs to be consensus at the beginning of the type of service the media team would offer, stressing accountability on quality and quantity of video content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Based on this premise, the MITx media team came up with 3 distinct service levels:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>self-service, where faculty and course teams are responsible and accountable for all video content from producing to editing;<\/li><li>mixed service, where the faculty, course teams and MITx produce and edit video content; <\/li><li>and full service, where MITx produces and edits all video content. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With our heavy course load, it\u2019s impossible for us to offer full service support for every course. We welcome faculty creating their own video content and we\u2019ve changed some of our team\u2019s practices. We now offer MITx Services online, a self-service site that outlines what course teams need to know about creating video content, including types of video content, pricing, best practices and examples. We conduct media literacy training to teach media fundamentals covering everything from best practices to areas for experimentation. &nbsp;We provide one-on-one support which includes visioning, scripting workshops and fine-tuning post production work to best support faculty\u2019s goals. &nbsp;We provide faculty and course teams access to video and digital equipment they need in order to produce high-quality media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As\nfaculty are used to teaching in classrooms, teaching online requires a\ndifferent mindset as it not only matters what you\u2019re saying but how you are\nengaging learners all around the world. The media team stresses the importance\nof recognizing both video\u2019s strengths and weaknesses as a teaching tool. Video\nproduction decisions do affect learner engagement in online educational videos.\nFaculty must plan their content specifically for an online video format,\nrealizing while their presentation styles work well in traditional in-person\nlectures, it doesn\u2019t necessarily make for effective online educational video. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lana Scott will be talking more on this topic during her presentation at the Media &amp; Learning Conference on Wednesday 5 June.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"644\" height=\"616\" src=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3853\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture.jpg 644w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture-300x287.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture-370x354.jpg 370w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture-270x258.jpg 270w, https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/Lana_Scott_Picture-570x545.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Author<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lana M. Scott<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manager, Media Services, MITx with the Open Learning department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MITx delivers massive open online courses, via edX, which MIT founded with Harvard University in 2012. MITx courses are developed and taught by MIT instructors with the aim of&nbsp;enhancing&nbsp;on-campus education,&nbsp;expanding access to quality educational opportunities worldwide, and advancing the understanding of teaching and learning through research. As of June 2019, more than 7.9&nbsp;million learners worldwide&nbsp;have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,275],"tags":[133,132],"class_list":["post-3852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-articles","category-higher-education","tag-diy-video","tag-video-production"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/files\/2019\/06\/bigstock-198898303.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Sally Reynolds","author_link":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/author\/sally-reynolds\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3852"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5062,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3852\/revisions\/5062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-and-learning.eu\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}