Create online teaching videos that engage your students
Creating educational content that’s both informative and engaging can be challenging. These expert tips and best practices will help you design and create learning videos that boost engagement and information retention.
Break longer educational videos into shorter segments
If your instructional video content is 20 minutes to several hours or more in length, consider breaking it up into short educational videos between one and six minutes long. It’s easy to create educational videos of any length free with Vimeo Create. Whether you need to break longer instructional content into short educational videos, create an education intro video, or make animated educational videos, Vimeo’s video editor for education makes creating videos for students simple with instructional video templates and easy to use editing features for customized, polished video lessons.
Create learning videos with an objective in mind
Before creating educational content, you should define your goals and identify the learning objectives students should achieve. You can use animated educational videos to introduce new concepts, reinforce previously introduced ideas, or to review a course model or unit. Make the objective clear to students at the beginning of the video. Explore Vimeo’s library of instructional video templates to get started with a professionally designed template that meets your needs.
Reinforce learning and enhance engagement with interactive content
Vimeo’s instructional video maker makes it easy to create online teaching videos that keep students engaged to boost information retention. Use Vimeo’s video editor for education to add captions and text to instructional videos and link to interactive content such as quizzes, discussion posts, or other activities students can complete to reinforce their mastery of the concepts. Vimeo Create is an excellent student video maker, too, so get your students engaged in the material by challenging them to create videos on course topics or concepts with Vimeo’s free video maker for school projects.
