Instructional Videos

Commonly known instructional videos are microvideos, tutorial videos, training videos, screencast and presentation or lecture capture videos. Microvideos are short instructional videos that focus on teaching a single or narrow topic. They’re usually less than a minute long and appeal to today’s media consumers, who have notoriously short attention spans. A tutorial video is the go-to instructional video for teaching a process or walking through the steps needed to complete a task. Training videos commonly cover interpersonal topics, such as compliance and harassment training, or job related topics. A screencast is a format that lends itself to just-in-time teaching, where an instructor can quickly create a screencast to answer a question or clear up a problematic concept. And last but not the least, presentation or lecture capture videos are usually a recording of a lecture or presentation to make it available for an audience to consume or review.