The Calculus Videos Project Overview
Channel: calcvids
Date: 2020-03-30

The goal of the Calculus Videos Project is to design instructional videos and conduct research on their effectiveness. We use research on student thinking about calculus concepts to design instructional videos; for each topic we also design a website with tasks to promote students’ thinking and to measure their understanding of the concept. We then investigate:

    The ways students interact with the videos;
    The aspects of the videos students attend to as they watch;
    The ways students make sense of and learn from the videos;
    How various ways of structuring the video-watching experience can influence each of these aspects.

Over the past three years, our videos have been used by thousands of students at numerous post-secondary institutions. Although we are in the initial stages of data analysis, initial results show that our videos help students learn calculus concepts, and using these videos provides instructors with time and opportunities to incorporate active learning strategies into their teaching.