Effective Video Solutions for Earth Science Education

With one in seven people worldwide regularly using digital communication platforms such as YouTube, an empirical understanding of how geoscience is communicated and educate with videos is crucial. This understanding may be beneficial for reaching audiences who are less likely to engage with geoscience-related content in mass media or other traditional channels. Also, although there has been significant research about how to design better and use videos for geoscience educational and communication purposes, the different goals and contents of communication via video lead to various instructional video designs. With increasingly easy and inexpensive video production and dissemination, more and more geoscience educational videos on varied Earth Science topics are becoming available. However, how to best create and utilize geoscience videos to formally and informally teach diverse learners effectively is not well understood. This dissertation presents three video solutions, aiming to provide an overall view of designing, organizing, disseminating, and assessing geoscience videos for various scales and learning environments.