What do students want for the instructor’s video?

The delivery of courses online has never been popular after the COVID pandemic. However, some students feel online courses lack some human touch.

In order to avoid the lack of human touch, some instructors are making introductory videos to introduce the instructors themselves so that students can get to know their instructors. At the 2021 TCC conference, there were some presentations about those introductory videos (T. Crawford, L. Brooks).

The presenter has been teaching Japanese online for more than 20 years. He has been making videos since his early days of online instruction because it’s not possible to teach a language without any sounds. Just recently the presenter noticed that the motivation for taking online courses has changed.
Before the pandemic, students took online courses took online courses because they chose to do. However, after the pandemic started, students are taking online courses without any choice.

In order to accommodate the student demographic change, it’s necessary, useful, and beneficial to know what kind of videos students would like to see. This presentation is based on several surveys given by the presenter after the pandemic started. The discussion goes deeper than introductory videos and will talk about videos throughout the semester.