{"id":17993,"date":"2015-03-19T13:38:36","date_gmt":"2015-03-19T13:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lern.org\/?p=2626"},"modified":"2021-08-02T12:23:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T17:23:36","slug":"replace-static-teacher-bio-with-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/replace-static-teacher-bio-with-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Replace static teacher bio with video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alexander.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2627\" src=\"https:\/\/lern.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/alexander-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"alexander\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Replace those static photos and written bio\u2019s for your instructors with more lively videos, says John Alexander, an instructional designer with \u00a0the College of Extended Studies at San Diego State University.<br \/>\nHe says when instructors introduce themselves to their online (or even face-to-face) students with a video, it makes the course more engaging.<br \/>\nAmong other things, instructor videos:<br \/>\n-Show the personal side of the instructor, making them more \u2018human\u2019 and approachable;<br \/>\n-It connects the students to their teacher, stimulates more engagement, which also gets expressed in the Discussion and other interactions with students and instructor;<br \/>\n-It\u2019s the right format for an effective introduction, allowing the instructor to share some things in a dynamic way that\u2019s better than in writing;<br \/>\n-Multimedia for introductions and personal sharing is more effective than static images and the written word.<br \/>\n-It allows the instructor to set the tone for the course.<br \/>\nAlexander reports that video introductions by the instructor are relevant and helpful for just about any subject, level, or student audience. Video instructor bios are on the rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replace those static photos and written bio\u2019s for your instructors with more lively videos, says John Alexander, an instructional designer with \u00a0the College of Extended Studies at San Diego State University. He says when instructors introduce themselves to their online (or even face-to-face) students with a video, it makes the course more engaging. Among other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19154,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions\/19154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lern.com\/lerntest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}