Online Course 1 - Process 2 - Kevin Cheng

Online Course 1 - Process 2 - Kevin Cheng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0i5rycLJ3D8

This is a video made to give people the general knowledge of a car windows’ physical properties as well as information on how to effectively break through them should the need to escape from one arises.

The ‘teacher’ is called Destin, and throughout the video he constantly refers to the viewers as ‘you’, which envelops the learning in a conversational style rather than a formal style. This is an application of the concept “Personalization”.

The entire video is presented by Destin’s voice, thus his natural human voice brings more emotions and impacts than a machine voice, hence this supports the “Voice” principle.

As Destin is present throughout the video interacting with the camera, his face is clearly visible, making the video feel more interactive (the use of “Image” principle).

In the beginning (0:25-1:08), Destin first gives us an insight into the differences between a car’s side window and its front windshield. The initial explanation of tempered and not-tempered glasses (annealed glass) is the use of “Pre-training” principle. It gives us the basic knowledge of their physical properties so that we can later on apply these knowledge on the skill taught, which is to escape from a car window.

In an experiment during the video, the tempered and not-tempered glasses are clearly labelled as such (3:31, 2:05), which gives a very clear indication to learners as to which is being tested and their different results. This uses the “Signaling principle” as it highlights which glass is which. Another example is at 4:13 where a clear red arrow is used to point to where Destin was talking about.

In 4:30-4:35, the animation is only present without any captions, as the main teaching is done by Destin’s narrations. This uses the “Redundancy” principle where redundant captions are not used. “Modality” principle is also used as no unneeded captions are used to split learner’s attention away from the animation.

There is rarely a use of words and captions throughout the video, and when there are, they are relevant, which is a clear support of the principle “Coherence”.

In 4:04, the image is presented alongside a caption of description, which is an example of integrated presentation through the principle “Spatial contiguity”. Also, simultaneous narration is used to explain the annealed glass’s physical property, which is a use of the “Temporal contiguity” principle.

Overall, I think this is an amazing instructional video which teaches people the basics of car windows while keeping them attracted throughout it. The only downside I would consider is that the video lacked some sort of “Segmentation”, where a clearer step-by-step guide may be better to give learners more control over the pacing of their learning.