{"id":146,"date":"2019-04-15T19:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T02:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/lrnt526-2019-team3\/?p=146"},"modified":"2019-04-18T02:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T09:16:55","slug":"to-video-or-not-to-video-that-is-the-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/lrnt526-2019-team3\/to-video-or-not-to-video-that-is-the-question\/","title":{"rendered":"To Video or not to Video…That is the Question!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This team blog post is co-written by Beata Kozma, Danielle Stokes, Melem Sharpe, and Tanya Heck.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Our technology group called \u201cTeam Lynda\u201d selected curated video courses on Lynda.com<\/a> to experience and provide a summary and curiosities about current and future uses. Curated content has quickly become a popular means of organizing and collecting professional quality resources to support learning and development (Hogle, 2017)<\/a>. Lynda.com<\/a> is an online video-based learning platform with more than seven thousand courses ranging in various skill and knowledge levels. These curated courses are accessible to anyone with an adequate internet connection. Our team has varying degrees of experience with this modality but we all agreed the investigation would provide valuable feedback that we could apply to our current contexts.<\/div>\n
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Lynda.com was founded in 1995 and offered free video-based courses to supplement co-founder, Lynda Weinman\u2019s books on web design (\u201cLynda Weinman,\u201d n.d.).<\/a> The platform evolved into an online virtual knowledge library where people had access with a monthly subscription fee. In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com and rebranded it to “Lynda.com From LinkedIn”. In 2016, Microsoft acquired Lynda.com’s parent company LinkedIn. This acquisition of Lynda.com seems to be driven by LinkedIn\u2019s efforts to excel its growth in the field of online education (Chaykowski, 2016)<\/a>. Although Lynda.com was renamed as LinkedIn Learning, the original website still exists until the full merger is completed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Depending upon the level of membership, members may take courses in several categories and interests such as accounting, animation, social media, and interactive design. Lynda.com separates itself from a MOOC by offering an option to commit to an entire class on one topic or to select a single video of interest from a library of choices (Porter, 2015).<\/a> Lynda.com has created \u201clearning pathways\u201d which offer a series of courses that build on knowledge and skills for a specific career path (ie. instructional designer) (Chaykowski, 2016).<\/a> Upon completion of a pathway, the recipient is awarded a certificate of completion that can be added to the user\u2019s LinkedIn profile (Chaykowski, 2016). The video can be used for more than just interest as they can assist the learner in making a career change.<\/span><\/p>\n

As of 2019, Lynda.com has more than 236,601 video tutorials and over 7450 courses and has been adopted by colleges, universities, governments, and businesses around the world (Lynda.com, 2019)<\/a>. These numbers suggest a growing use of the platform and have left our team with plenty of questions. To deepen our understanding of this platform, our team is taking a Lynda video course together. We will use an inquiry approach to learning as we view the video courses and experience the learning hands-on (<\/span>Justice, Rice, Roy, Hudspith, & Jenkins, 2009).<\/span> The following list of questions generated from our first team meeting is intentionally broad as we did not want to narrow our curiosity in the learning process just yet. Upon completion of watching the curated video and through further research into the literature, we hope to have more answers. <\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. What are the limitations and advantages of Lynda.com (such as quality, access, bandwidth, interactivity, accessibility, learner engagement)?<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. As a predominant training and development force in the e-learning industry, what effects (if any) might Lynda.com have on the way online continuing education evolves in the future, or how this might impact other e-learning providers?<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. What is the social-economic accessibility of Lynda.com?<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. How can Lynda.com videos be used for a flipped classroom? Is there any research available to support this? \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Does the design of the Lynda.com videos and courses follow research on how to reduce cognitive load, promote active learning and engage students (length, style, interactivity, the balance of audio and visual element)?\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. How well are the videos optimized for accessibility? Do they follow inclusive design best practices?<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Who are the \u201cexperts\u201d presenting the videos; is there a requirement to produce these videos? Are they credible?<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. How does Lynda.com ensure the video content continues to be relevant? Who creates\/writes the content? How frequently is the video content re-evaluated?<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. How is learning assessed on Lynda.com?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    The featured image is a photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels.<\/em><\/p>\n

    References<\/span><\/p>\n

    Chaykowski, K. (2016, March 31). LinkedIn launches lynda.com ‘learning paths’ in push to grow education business.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Hogle, P. (2017, March 22). Six reasons to incorporate curated content into elearning development.\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Justice, C., Rice, J., Roy, D., Hudspith, B., & Jenkins, H. (2009). <\/span>Inquiry-based learning in higher education: administrators\u2019 perspectives on integrating inquiry pedagogy into the curriculum<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span>Higher education<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>58<\/span><\/i>(6), 841-855.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Lynda.com. (2019). All Courses | lynda.com. Retrieved April 9, 2019, from https:\/\/www.lynda.com\/allcourses<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

    Lynda Weiman. (n.d.). In <\/span>Wikipedia<\/span><\/i>. Retrieved April 13, 2019, from <\/span>https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lynda_Weinman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

    Porter, J. (2015, April 27). From near failure to a $1.5 billion sale: The epic story of Lynda.com.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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