Sylvia Frin’s scientific contributions

The use of videos in teaching is not a new phenomenon. Nevertheless, in the context of the digital turn, videos are increasingly becoming the focus of formal and informal teaching/learning processes at universities. This is mainly due to simple production and distribution possibilities and the advantages associated with video as a learning form. For example, it can be quite advantageous for students if lectures are "preserved" and can be consumed multiple times depending on their own learning preferences. From the point of view of the teachers, on the other hand, this is a economical form of storing learning content, which occurs "incidentally", so to speak. On the basis of an empirical analysis of demand and the current state of the art, this article explores the question of the prevalence and didactic purpose of video use in university teaching. The analysis was based on a proposal for a systematics of the different video types, which is presented for discussion in the context of the paper.