rhymanocerous

First, I love Crash Course and have used it in my classroom. Thanks you!

What do you feel about research that has shown more conversational, less produced educational videos are more effective teaching tools? How do you think you could utilize your platform to help individual teachers learn how to make their own videos and other educational tools?

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/what-makes-online-instructional-video-compelling?utm_source=Informz&utm_medium=Email+marketing&utm_campaign=EDUCAUSE

As a grad student getting his master's in Educational Technology I want to thank you and John for getting me interested in Educational videos. On a nearly daily basis I am showing professors crashcourse videos as an example of how powerful video can be.

On that note, what pedagogy goes behind crashcourse? I am doing research on the effectiveness of online education and constantly see studies done about educational video but rarely hear about the pedagogy behind those videos.

Also, tell John my former US history students say thanks for being apart of our classroom!

Is ALS in your family? My maternal grandma died of ALS ten years ago. I've read that in 10% of cases it is genetic and that person has a 50/50 chance of passing the gene down.

As someone who works in the general undefined sphere of Educational Video I think it's really important to make video creation more accessible to teachers. What I like about Crash Course is that yourself, Hank and now Craig are physically there and you can read your non-verbal cues. There is so much research that has shown the importance of instructor presence and I think you guys do a great job of that and I want to find a way to bring that to all teachers.

Definitely agree with the need for more research. In the field of Educational Technology there will always been a need for research considering the speed of technology today. For instance, I'd be interested to see Crash Course do a video that is 5 minutes, and then see the retention rate on that compared to a standard length video.

That makes me feel good.....