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We took all 862 videos from four edX courses offered in Fall 2012 and hand-classified each one based on its type (e.g., traditional lecture, problem-solving tutorial) and production style (e.g., PowerPoint slides, Khan-style tablet drawing, talking head). We automatically extracted other features such as length and speaking rate (words per minute). We then mined the edX server logs to obtain over 6.9 million video watching sessions from almost 128,000 students. To our knowledge, this is the largest-scale study of video engagement to date. Here's what we found and a couple recommendations:

A great project for any class. You and your students can determine an area of Wikipedia to focus on and then get to editing.

Some of you had thought about having students do common craft type videos, and this post includes an example rubric.

I do not think this is not the way to handle this. I'd say we should embrace the technology and pose questions on exams that are not easily answered if one has access to the internet. Yes, you'll need to change your exam for every time you offer the class since you have to assume students will post solutions.

Something that we have discussed in Fellows a number of times