Video pedagogy and online courses

The use of video communication is increasingly being applied in media didactic environments, in formal and non-formal situations. Videos are now becoming a consolidated language available to lecturers and teachers for transmitting knowledge with the aim of supporting learning processes. For this reason, we are starting to talk about video pedagogy. Naturally, the use of images (in all their forms) in the representation and transmission of knowledge for didactic purposes must be guided by a series of principles and guidelines based on research in the cognitive psychology, multimedia learning and instructional design areas. The aim of the article is to offer a view of this setting, in order to focus on the didactic instruments, notably video lectures, which may be functional to the international research project Better-e (Better e-Learning for All).