Interactive Video

EDUCAUSE LEARNING INITIATIVE | SEPTEMBER 2016

Educators increasingly use video content in teaching and learning activities—the amount of available video is expanding rapidly, and rich media have been shown to increase engagement and retention. A growing range of applications and services allows users to add interactive features to existing video or create video that includes questions, branching, game elements, and other enhancements. The resources below explore some of those tools and their effects on higher education teaching and learning.

The Effective Use of Video in Higher Education (2015)

This comprehensive paper from Inholland University in The Netherlands provides a broad view of the use of video in higher education. It separates effective teaching practices from effective learning practices and offers insights into effective implementations. The paper includes a typology of video, along with a literature review.

How Interactive Videos Shape the Future of Workplace Learning (2016)

Particularly in the workplace, video allows individuals to learn what they need, when they need it. Interactive video can further increase the effectiveness of video learning by giving users the ability to direct how the learning unfolds, as seen in this example.

Five-Minute Film Festival: 8 Interactive Video Tools for Engaging Learners (2014)

This blog from Edutopia provides a series of short videos, each of which reviews a product or tool that lets users add interactivity to videos. These guides can help educators add more value to their favorite video clips.

10 Tools for More Interactive Videos (2016)

This article profiles 10 services for making videos interactive. The services are pulled from different sources that investigate technologies and applications that instructors are using to infuse learning activities with more creativity.

The Impact of a Question-Embedded Video-Based Learning Tool on E-Learning (2013)

This paper reports the results of a study into the effects of embedding questions in video content. The research compared question-embedded interactive video to video that was interactive but did not include embedded questions. Researchers found evidence of improved outcomes with the addition of questions.

Emerging Trends in Video-Based Learning (2016)

This post highlights several trends that can make video learning more engaging and effective, including interactivity (including gamification) and branched-narrative videos, such as Lifesaver (from the Resuscitation Council UK).

What Are the Best Tools to Create an Interactive Video? (2015)

From question-and-answer site Quora, this page features more than two dozen responses to a someone looking for interactive-video tools. The responses include not only recommendations for particular tools but also advice about effective ways to use such tools.

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