Using Video in PowerPoint Lectures
Videos included in PowerPoint Lectures should directly relate to the lecture topic(s). Videos included with lecture presentations should aim to deepen a student’s understanding of the lecture topics.
- Increase student motivation and engagement with lecture content
- Develop potential for deeper learning of the subject
- Reach students with a variety of learning styles, especially visual learners
- Reinforce lecture concepts
- Provide a common experience for students to discuss
- Grab students attention and spark curiosity
- Allows students the ability to review content multiple times
- Increase instructor presence
- Simulations/demonstrations/real life examples/case studies that further reinforce lecture concepts
- Conclusion of lecture concepts
- Deep dive into lecture concepts
- Demonstration of lecture concepts
- Demonstration of in-class activities, labs, experiments that coincide with lecture concepts
- Explanation/demonstration of FAQs or issues
- Launching point for in-class group discussion
- “How-to” videos (if applicable to the lecture topics)
- Virtual field trips (if applicable to the lecture topics)
- Show experiments that can’t be done in class