Classroom-Management

Three years after writing about why classroom video works, Charlotte Kramer, Kai Kaspar, and I wrote a manual on how to actually do it. The gap between knowing that video-based learning is effective and being able to produce usable footage turns out to be substantial. The manual is open access. Here is what is in it and why some of it surprised me to write.

ViLLA is an online portal of real classroom videos built for teacher education at the University of Cologne. The idea sounds straightforward. Getting there required filming actual lessons, building infrastructure, surviving a quasi-experiment, and eventually convincing the federal government that this was worth scaling. Some notes on how that went.