eLearning: Adding Videos to eLearning... The Results

by Kevin Siegel   

 

Last week's poll about how eLearning developers work with the storage demands of video in eLearning garnered several responses. Here are the results:

Which eLearning development tool do you use the most?

• Adobe Captivate
• Adobe Presenter
• Articulate Storyline
• Articulate Presenter
• TechSmith Camtasia Studio
• Other (please specify)

While many developers use two or more of the tools listed above, the majority of respondents use Adobe Captivate the most (56%). Second was Camtasia Studio (24%) followed by Articulate Storyline (16%).

When adding video to your project, which option are you using?

• Video stored on your computer or network
• Your corporate media server (or a server you created on your own)
• A media service
• Other (please specify)

Most developers (54%) store the videos on their computer or server. Media service placed second (38%).  

If you set up your own media server, tell us your story. Specifically, what hardware and software did you use? What did it cost to set up?

Top comments about this question: "Previously attempted to do this with Adobe's Flash Media Server but it was too complicated and expensive. Did Windows Media Streaming as it came with Windows Server years ago. Generally due to cost, I have customer setup private Vimeo account and stream from there. We're getting a beefy streaming service setup (Kaltura)."

"We have a central server for our L&D team, run by operations."

"IT set-up MediaMill for us... and we set-up YouTube channels."

If you're using a media service, which one are you using?

Top responses:

• Amazon 
• YouTube
• Kaltura

Respondents were able to select any or all of the options above. Most selected the first two (creating or including videos feature themselves/talking head or video of industry-related tasks). Plenty of people also said that they use video of a demo already created in an eLearning authoring tool.

Comments

[Akanksha Garg]

Video based learning is not a new concept, but is catching up a lot in the recent times. Creating a video is not an inexpensive affair – it takes moneys, resources and time. Here are some tips on jazzing up plain-vanilla videos to create impactful learning - http://www.gc-solutions.net/blog/getting-more-out-of-learning-videos-four-ways-of-jazzing-up-plain-vanilla-videos/