{"id":663,"date":"2017-09-16T10:28:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T10:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/?p=663"},"modified":"2017-10-14T11:23:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-14T11:23:54","slug":"effective-elearning-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/effective-elearning-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make Videos More Effective For E-Learning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how many videos view does You Tube gets per day? Believe it or not it\u2019s four billion!! As per You Tube figures, site has One Billion active users each month. That\u2019s the power of videos. Talking in educational context, <a href=\"http:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/elearning-types\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eLearning<\/a> videos are becoming one of the most popular e-learning formats. Adding videos in e-learning courses can help your organization to meet its learning objectives. Videos offer asynchronous learning that can help users to grasp the topic more clearly as compared to reading live instructions.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some tips on how elearning videos can be made more effective for learning:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Decide wisely the video length<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The length of the elearning video should be wisely decide. Videos need to be short, concise and to the point. In case of instructional or informational videos the length can be little longer but not more than 10 minutes. Videos should contain short portion of information which is easy to grasp for the learner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bring Transcript into play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Videos must be accompanied with transcript with them. It is not necessary that every learner has headphones and sound cards with them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interactive is the key<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>eLearning videos should be interactive, in order to keep the audience engaged, involved and focused on the points you want to highlight. If not so, ask your learners for some feedback, add some quizzes or end your video with a quick summary of the key points.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider video file size<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video files should be compressed well. Slow loading videos causes the frustration among the learners. Separate version of videos can also be made, which can easily play on low bandwidths.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Be little creative<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Videos can be used to show scenarios and simulations. Videos can be very well leveraged for creating immersive scenarios like \u201cwhat to do\u201d or \u201chow to do\u201d kind of situations. With the help of videos, it makes it easy to simulate a real-life situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know how many videos view does You Tube gets per day? Believe it or not it\u2019s four billion!! As per You Tube figures, site has One Billion active&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/effective-elearning-videos\/'>Read More <span class='screen-reader-text'>How To Make Videos More Effective For E-Learning?<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4,129],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginners-guide","category-elearning-tips","category-online-training","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}