Recommended Videos

Rec­om­mend­ed resources can take the form of a video or a series of videos. This page high­lights some excel­lent videos that share infor­ma­tion and insights into teach­ing and learn­ing.

How Learning Works: seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching: Susan Ambrose
  • About: One of the authors of the book shares a sum­ma­ry of the sev­en prin­ci­ples of learn­ing.
  • Note: 50 minute pre­sen­ta­tion with slides
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Don’t lecture me! Carl E Wieman and Active Learning
  • About: What is active learn­ing and how does it work? Is it real­ly bet­ter than cur­rent­ly used meth­ods? What are its strengths, what are its weak­ness­es? To dis­cuss these ques­tions, Carl E. Wie­man and sev­er­al edu­ca­tion prac­ti­tion­ers and experts met in Lin­dau dur­ing the 69th Lin­dau Nobel Lau­re­ate Meet­ing.
  • Note: 16 minute inter­view with visu­als
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Techniques Video Library
  • About: from The K. Patri­cia Cross Acad­e­my, a non-prof­it pro­gram of the Social Good Fund found­ed by Eliz­a­beth F. Barkley and Claire H. Major to hon­our and pre­serve the lega­cy of K. Patri­cia Cross.
  • Con­tent: Each video explores anoth­er teach­ing and learn­ing tech­nique along with an instruc­tor’s guide. At the bot­tom of each video page are some notes about the activ­i­ty type, the teach­ing prob­lems it solves and the learn­ing dimen­sions it address­es. Won­der­ful col­lec­tion of videos and resources!
  • Note: Over 50 Tech­niques (Jan 2024)
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The Anatomy of a 21st century educator: Pathways to institutional Support: Simon Bates
  • About: Simon Bates is the Appoint­ed Vice-Provost and Asso­ciate Vice-Pres­i­dent, Teach­ing and Learn­ing at Uni­ver­si­ty of British Colum­bia. In 2014 Simon cre­at­ed the attrib­ut­es of a 21st cen­tu­ry edu­ca­tor which were adopt­ed by eCam­pus Ontario for their Ontario Extend PD series.
  • Note: Keynote Pre­sen­ta­tion (1 hour at ETUG 2015 con­fer­ence) — eCam­pus Ontario Open Book relat­ed to anato­my cre­at­ed by Simon Bates
  • Besides achiev­ing mas­tery in their own dis­ci­pline, edu­ca­tors need:
    • An under­stand­ing and appre­ci­a­tion of what research has to say about how peo­ple learn.
    • The abil­i­ty to curate, devel­op, use, and share appro­pri­ate edu­ca­tion­al resources.
    • Skill in dis­cern­ing the possibilities—and limitations—of tech­nol­o­gy to sup­port teach­ing and learn­ing.
    • Pro­fes­sion­al learn­ing net­works through col­lab­o­ra­tions with oth­er dis­ci­plines.
    • A schol­ar­ly approach to teach­ing.
    • A will­ing­ness to exper­i­ment: to try, reflect, and learn from new approach­es, ped­a­go­gies, and tech­nolo­gies to sup­port learn­ing.
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Teaching teaching & Understanding Understanding
  • About: “Teach­ing Teach­ing & Under­stand­ing Under­stand­ing” is a 19-minute award-win­ning short-film (sep­a­rat­ed into three part mini-videos) about teach­ing at uni­ver­si­ty and high­er-lev­el edu­ca­tion­al insti­tu­tions. It is based on the “Con­struc­tive Align­ment” the­o­ry devel­oped by Prof. John Big­gs. The film deliv­ers a foun­da­tion for under­stand­ing what a teacher needs to do in order to make sure all types of stu­dents actu­al­ly learn what the teacher intends.
  • Con­tent: Three videos com­pris­ing 19 min­utes from Claus Brabrand YouTube site which has oth­er lan­guages
  • Note: Over 50 Tech­niques (Jan 2024)
  • Links: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
CONFESSIONS OF A CONVERTED LECTURER: ERIC MAZUR
  • About: Eric Mazur: “I thought I was a good teacher until I dis­cov­ered my stu­dents were just mem­o­riz­ing infor­ma­tion rather than learn­ing to under­stand the mate­r­i­al. Who was to blame? The stu­dents? The mate­r­i­al?
    • I will explain how I came to the ago­niz­ing con­clu­sion that the cul­prit was nei­ther of these. It was my teach­ing that caused stu­dents to fail! I will show how I have adjust­ed my approach to teach­ing and how it has improved my stu­dents’ per­for­mance sig­nif­i­cant­ly.”
    • Eric Mazur is the Balka­n­s­ki Pro­fes­sor of Physics and Applied Physics at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty. An inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized sci­en­tist and researcher, he leads a vig­or­ous research pro­gram in opti­cal physics and super­vis­es one of the largest research groups in the Physics Depart­ment at Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty.
  • Note: Keynote Lec­ture (1 hour 20 mins)
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PEER Instruction for Active Learning: Eric Mazur
  • About: Physi­cist Eric Mazur from Har­vard Uni­ver­si­ty on begin­ners’ dif­fi­cul­ties, teach­ing each oth­er and mak­ing sense of infor­ma­tion.
  • Note: Eric is well respect­ed for his work in peer instruc­tion, the books he has writ­ten and the work on soft­ware plat­form Per­su­all. Inter­view (14 min­utes)
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The Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams: RanDy Pausch
  • About: Carnegie Mel­lon Pro­fes­sor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 — July 25, 2008) gave his last lec­ture at the uni­ver­si­ty Sept. 18, 2007, before a packed McCono­my Audi­to­ri­um months before his death. In his mov­ing pre­sen­ta­tion, “Real­ly Achiev­ing Your Child­hood Dreams,” Pausch talked about his lessons learned and gave advice to stu­dents on how to achieve their own career and per­son­al goals.
  • Note: Keynote Lec­ture (1 hour 16 mins)
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A vision of Students today: Michael Wesch
  • About: A short video sum­ma­riz­ing some of the most impor­tant char­ac­ter­is­tics of stu­dents today — how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will expe­ri­ence in their life­time.
  • Note: Cre­at­ed by Michael Wesch (pro­fes­sor) in col­lab­o­ra­tion with 200 stu­dents at Kansas State Uni­ver­si­ty in 2007 but still wor­thy of the con­tent and mes­sage.
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10 Online Teaching Tips beyond Zoom: Michael Wesch
  • About: I reluc­tant­ly start­ed teach­ing online 4 years ago. Now I absolute­ly love it. Instead of teach­ing “online” I see it as teach­ing “out in the world” — with­out walls. This is Episode 1 where I go over the basic set­up and struc­ture of my class:
  • Note: Teach­ing With­out Walls Online Teach­ing Tips  — Series of 6 Videos
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