This document discusses the use of educational videos and outlines several key points: - Educational videos can change the learning context and environment by being digital, social, personal or institutional, rich in content, and always accessible. - Recent trends in educational videos include diverse production values, use in flipped classrooms, and authentic voices that connect to the real world. - Attributes of educational videos include presence, voice, movement, sharing information, and the ability to observe, access, cooperate and review lessons over time. - The document promotes involvement with MELSIG, a group focused on educational videos and technology enhanced learning.

1. • Changing the learning
context and the learning
learning environment
• How?
• Today: Video
• Developing an online
resource together
Creative Lecture Capture, Webinars &
Screencasting
• Digital – share, create, communicate, curate
• Social – network, co-operate, collaborate
• Personal or institutional?
• Rich – video, voice, and viewpoints
• Connected – always on, accessible
• Open – redefining the spaces and
approaches we use for learning
• Authentic, ubiquitous, informal shift? –
learning is ever-present, real, unbounded
(cc) ) Saad Faruque

2. Lecture Capture, Webinars & Screencasting
Video Attributes
Presence
Voice
Movement
Information
Student
Teacher
Community Practice
Observe
Access
Co-operation
Time-base
Articulation
Review
Record
Entropy Confusion
- Sixty SymbolsKey recent changes in appreciation of educational video:
Diverse production values
Use of Flipped Classroom
The ‘authentic’ voice – real world connectivity

3. Lecture Capture, Webinars & Screencasting
Video Attributes
Presence
Voice
Movement
Information
Student
Teacher
Community Practice
Observe
Access
Co-operation
Time-base
Articulation
Review
Record
Entropy Confusion
- Sixty Symbols
Key recent changes in appreciation of educational video:
Diverse production values
Use of Flipped Classroom
The ‘authentic’ voice – real world connectivity

4. Announcements
• MELSIG events - focus, hosts?
• MELSIG webinar programme?
• MELSIG journal?
• Online resource:
http://melsig.shu.ac.uk
• New book “Smart Learning”
• MELSIG Steering Group?
• Please speak to me if you would
like to get more involved in
MELSIG
(cc) by nc Incessant Flux
@andrewmid @melsiguk
UK developing a wider
active presence - are you
interested in becoming
involved?

5. Finally…
#MELSIGUoNThank you Sally Hanford and
the
University of Nottingham!
Andrew Middleton
Head of Innovation & Professional Development, QESS
Sheffield Hallam University
@andrewmid