Adding multimedia to your module can help you to provide students with different ways to understand the topics in your module. Video and audio resources can offer different representations of phenomena that are not easy to bring to your teaching in another way. Simulations, events that are historically or geographically distant, microscopical representations, space images are only some examples. Also, videos can provide with narratives which can assist students in relating to material emotionally, which can facilitate more genuine and sustainable learning.
However, the inclusion of a video resource does not guarantee any of the previous benefits. To include them effectively, they need to be tightly embedded on the development of your module and linked to your learning outcomes. For instance, the reasons to include the resources should be communicated to students and you should offer opportunities to analyse them and to link its content with the concepts in the module.
As well as creating your own multimedia content for the module, there are a number of free-to-use online video and audio repositories, with thousands of clips from TV stations and archives which can be used for educational purposes.
Clip analysis: Provide a clip for students to analyse the editing, continuity, sequencing, recording method or shot choice in a clip (Journalism, Creative Industries, Creative Writing, Music, Communications and Media Studies)
Foreign languages: Provide real-world examples of native speakers of other languages, e.g. in foreign films or TV programmes, radio programmes or YouTube videos (Languages)
Instruction guides: Thousands of screencast demonstrations probably already exist for the features of most common computer program. Could you use one of these rather than record your own? (All disciplines)
Social commentary or observation of social phenomena: Choose a clip from a documentary, film or news item (or have students choose their own) and ask students to identify and analyse phenomena or theories illustrated in the clip (Social Sciences, Management, Social and Behavioural Psychology, Health Sciences)
Analysing bias: Choose clips which show some form of bias and ask students to identify how the bias distorts or affects the message (Journalism, Sociology, Literature, Communication and Media Studies)
Scenario-based learning: Using clips from documentaries, case studies or even soap operas or films, create problem-based or scenario-based learning activities which require students to analyse the issues involved in a situation and propose methods to tackle or resolve the issues (Health Sciences, Social Sciences, Management, Law)
You can use a Video Resource to display and stream your Kaltura MediaSpace content to students.
Using Moodle's text editor you can embed multimedia content from external video repositories, including Box of Broadcasts (BoB) and YouTube.
You can also use the URL resource to link out to external multimedia content.
Automated captions are enabled on all content uploaded to Kaltura MediaSpace. The captions can be corrected using the captioning editor - Kaltura Reach. Captions and a transcript of the audio display to students.
When including external multimedia on Moodle, limit your selection to content with good quality captions.
