Pre-service teachers’ skills development through educational video generation

Abstract

The impacts of the pandemic on education have highlighted the need to improve pre-service teachers’ digital skills training. This quantitative study explored pre-service teachers’ perceptions on how the design, generation, and dissemination of didactic videos enhance their teaching competences. Early childhood, primary, and secondary education English (as a foreign language) pre-service teachers have produced eight different types of educational content in video format (stories, linguistic content, tutorials, documentaries, news programmes, contests, literary reviews, and educational system criticism) addressed to schools´ audience. These videos have been circulated through YouTube channels linked to an open-access online TV portal. The results showed that these educational videos contributed to enriching their skills. Preservice teachers’ highly positive perceptions regarding improvements of these competences, remark, above all, the development of teamwork abilities thanks to this experience, and let researchers reflect on the design of more effective learning experiences through didactic video generation to ameliorate teacher education.