Using Video (Pt. 2) | FREE Online Video Repositories for Higher Education

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Do you know what OER is? OER stands for open educational resources which means that the resources are accessible to anyone and are completely free. I have been consulting in this space for awhile now and will write on this topic at a later time.

In this post, I'd like to continue the series on the "Use of Video in Online Courses" by sharing some great OER video repositories in education. These repositories contain loads of educational/instructional videos that you can use in your online courses.

Using Video (Pt. 1) | 5 Types of Video Assignments for Online Courses

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Over the past decade, the use of video has increasingly become a great option for creating engaging learning activities for students in all types of courses. The use of videos are prevalent in blended courses, self-paced courses and in online in higher education. Many instructional videos are now available in the public domain that can be used in online courses. Teachers also have the option of creating their own videos to use in their course assignments. Some of the most common questions I hear from teachers involve how to create compelling video-based assignments that will enhance their students' learning experience. Here's how I look at it:

NEWS | RESEARCH - 2015 Survey on Online Education by OLC

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If you teach online, you might have wondered how distance education is doing as opposed to traditional education. For me, I've wondered about the future of my faculty colleagues who teach on-campus as opposed to those of us who teach online.

I've been in and out traveling but wanted to point you to the 2015 survey on the "health" of distance education as reported by the OLC last month.

So, in case you missed this:

2015 Survey on Online Education by Online Learning Consortium
http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/2015SurveyInfo.pdf

Here is a 1-hour slide presentation of the OLC survey entitled, "Online Report Card - Tracking Online Education in the United States"
http://www.brainshark.com/pearsonschool/vu?pi=zFuzN896GzMmpAz0


Read the Babson College page on the survey HERE:
http://www.babson.edu/news-events/babson-news/Pages/2016-babson-releases-2015-survey-of-online-learning.aspx

Simple C.R.A.P. Test for Your Online Courses (POSTER)

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When creating online content and developing online course materials for your students, you should make sure that they follow good design principles.

The C.R.A.P. is a checklist that can help you gauge the visual impact that your material has on its audience. The acronym C.R.A.P. stands for Contrast, Repetition, Alignment and Proximity for short. These are important design elements that should be considered when creating online content on your school's LMS, on your website or company's intranet. For details on each element and how it relates to your online content, read my previous article HERE.
So, when you are doing content development, make sure that all of your online course content passes the C.R.A.P. test. 

Click to download the poster.