Twelve tips for the production of digital chalk-talk videos

Abstract

Increasingly over the past decade, faculty in medical and graduate schools have received requests from digital millennial learners for concise faculty-made educational videos. At our institution, over the past couple of years alone, several hundred educational videos have been created by faculty who teach in a flipped-classroom setting of the pre-clinical medical school curriculum. Despite the appeal and potential learning benefits of digital chalk-talk videos first popularized by Khan Academy, we have observed that the conceptual and technological barriers for creating chalk-talk videos can be high for faculty. To this end, this tips article offers an easy-to-follow 12-step conceptual framework to guide at-home production of chalk-talk educational videos.

Acknowledgements

The authors thank faculty and students involved in the Harvard Medical School Pathways Curriculum.

Disclosure statement

The authors report no conflicts of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article. As a disclosure, author Jasmine Rana, BA, created video content for Khan Academy from July 2013 to January 2014.

Notes on contributors

Jasmine Rana, BA, is a 2017 MD-MMSc Medical Education Candidate at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA, USA.

Henrike Besche, PhD, is the Associate Director for Curriculum Integration at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA, USA.

Barbara Cockrill, MD, is the Academy Associate Director for Faculty Development at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA, USA.