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No Production Crew, No Problem: Delivering Broadcast-Quality Online Classes with Open Broadcaster Software

Alym Amlani and John Shepherd November 18, 2024

Whether you teach synchronously online or create asynchronous video content for your students, producing professional-looking material has always been a challenge without a production team—until now. This article explores how Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) empowers educators to craft engaging, broadcast-quality learning experiences for both synchronous

Voice Cloning for Education

John Orlando October 28, 2024

Simple and inexpensive software has made it easy for students and teachers to create video and audio for learning content and projects. But this still leaves many students and teachers struggling with the stylistic elements that make multimedia interesting and engaging. In particular, it is

Beyond Text: AI Tools for Making Images, Videos, Audio, and Study Aids

Meizhen Chen, Sarah Shewbert, Himani Trivedi, and Kaitlyn Vogel February 5, 2024

We associate artificial intelligence with text-generating systems like ChatGPT. But AI can also produce content in a variety of digital formats, including images, videos, and audio. These tools allow instructors and instructional designers to create custom content that enriches their online courses without high-level technical

Audio and Video Content Made Easy with Descript

John Orlando January 22, 2024

As widely used communications media, videos and podcasts should be at the heart of any online class. The problem is that it is nearly impossible to make mistake-free videos and podcasts—at least if you speak off the cuff, as people who make a lot of

Don’t Knock TikTok (Yet): Lessons from Livestream Content

Michael G. Strawser, Bridget Rubenking, and Erica Kight November 27, 2023

The rapid rise of livestream content development and consumption has been nothing short of remarkable. According to Ceci (2022), 126.7 million users in the United States viewed livestreaming content on mobile devices in 2019; the same year, 23 percent of Americans livestreamed content themselves. In

YouTube-Based Student Assignments

John Orlando June 12, 2023

Most instructors know the value of YouTube videos for supplementing instructional material. YouTube has a wealth of instructor- and expert-created content that can vividly illustrate course concepts. But instructors can use YouTube for more than just instructional content. They can also use it as

Active Learning through Video Annotations

John Orlando May 15, 2023

It is now well-known that good online courses should make use of the world of free, high-quality educational videos available on nearly any topic. It is also well-known that interaction with lesson content, in which students must think about the lesson material while going

Teaching with 360-Degree Video

Eileen M. Grodziak, Kathleen J. Morgan, and Ana I. Serrano-Martinez March 27, 2023

Three hundred sixty–degree (360°) video provides an opportunity for students to have an immersive experience of a location they’re studying in class. Prices have dropped to a point where institutions generally have 360° cameras available for instructors to use. Students can play 360° videos

Try Volley for Video Discussions

John Orlando February 6, 2023

The learning management system (LMS) transformed class discussion by introducing an asynchronous forum that allows each student to participate without the time limit of a live class. But it has become a bit long in the tooth as apps have made video many students’

Spark Curiosity and Build Community on the First Day

Yanping Ma January 17, 2023

The first day of class is a big deal. Just as there is only one chance at love at first sight, teachers like us only have one chance to demonstrate of each class. As Sarah Rose Cavanagh (2016) writes, “On the first few days

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