Introducing IDEAS Seminar Series
This event is part of the Ideas Seminar Series - a growing and ongoing schedule of seminars which will explore areas such as multimedia creation, online course development, and strategies for fostering student engagement.
About this Seminar
In an increasingly digital learning environment, multimedia—especially video—is a powerful tool for engaging students and enhancing learning outcomes. Yet too often, educational videos end up being long, monotonous, and uninspiring. How can educators and instructional designers break this cycle and create videos that truly engage?
Join our IDEAS instructional design seminar to explore key strategies and emerging trends that make educational videos effective. Our expert speakers will address critical questions, including:
- What are the most significant video trends for 2025?
- What defines an engaging educational video?
- How to align video content with learning objectives effectively?
- How can storytelling be effectively integrated into video content?
- When should educators opt for in-house production versus outsourcing?
Whether you're a faculty member, instructional designer, or video production expert, this seminar will provide actionable insights and inspiration to enhance your teaching materials.
Meet the Speakers
Matthew Pierce is a video creator, podcast host, instructional designer, and loves to share his knowledge, experience, and expertise. As Learning & Video Ambassador for TechSmith, he hosts The Visual Lounge podcast, leads the TechSmith Academy, and launched the Camtasia Certification program. He also leads the Content Marketing team and has experience in Marketing, Training, Customer Education, Customer Support, and more. He's a speaker and contributor to learning and development, customer education, and marketing events and conferences.
Richard E. Mayer is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests involve applying the science of learning to education. He served as President of Division 15 (Educational Psychology) of the American Psychological Association and Vice President of the American Educational Research Association for Division C (Learning and Instruction).
More about Dr. Mayer
Richard received the E. L. Thorndike Award for career achievement in educational psychology, the Scribner Award for outstanding research in learning and instruction, the Jonassen Award for excellence in research in the field of instructional design and technology, the James McKeen Cattell Award for a lifetime of outstanding contributions to applied psychological research, the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Contribution of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training Award, and the Citizen Psychologist Citation for four decades of service as a local school board member. He has been recognized in Contemporary Educational Psychology as the most productive educational psychologist in the world and by research.com as among the top 100 research psychologists in the world. Google Scholar lists him as the most cited educational psychologist in the world (with over 230,000 citations and an h-index of 186). He serves on the editorial boards of 12 journals mainly in educational psychology. He is the author or co-author of more than 800 publications including 35 books, such as Multimedia Learning: Third Edition, e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Fifth Edition (with R. Clark), Learning as a Generative Activity (with L. Fiorella), Applying the Science of Learning, Computer Games for Learning, Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction: Second Edition (co-edited with P. Alexander), and The Cambridge Handbook of Multimedia Learning: Third Edition (co-edited with L. Fiorella).
10+ years of working as a director, editor, and animator for a variety of academic and commercial organizations and has played a role in producing 100+ videos. Background in educational communication and video production. Studied film and linguistics at Hampshire College. Their academic video essays have been used as teaching tools in classrooms around the world.
Forrest’s research investigates how students learn GIS, especially in the growing field of CyberGIS. Through analysis of curriculum and instruction in GIS, Forrest aims to build an evidence-based understanding of how GIS programs function, and what knowledge, skills, and practices make up the GIS degree. He has additional research interest in geography education, geography in higher education, resources of the elements, and tropical glaciers.
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