Homemade Educational Videos for Learning General Chemistry Experiments: A Pedagogical Alternative for Remote Teaching

The COVID-19 pandemic has displayed new challenges forchemistryinstructors and students worldwide. An essential part of learningchemistry involves interactions in a laboratory ambiance. However,nowadays, it is necessary to consider alternatives to teaching experimentalchemistry in an online environment. As a course project proposal,the students produced homemade videos to investigate a specific topicand find alternative ways to transfer their knowledge through innovativepedagogical and communicational tools. This work was assigned to first-yearundergraduate students in a Chemistry I course who could not accessan on-campus laboratory. This activity was performed in eight labsections, considering seven different lab assignments, with 56 homemadeeducational videos. Each course had an instructor who guided the studentsand gave their feedback to improve the video quality. The final videooutput was subjected to an evaluation process consisting of threesteps: the instructors' evaluation, pedagogical analysis, andcommunicational review. Making educational videos at home could bean excellent alternative to boost the transfer of chemistry knowledgethrough didactic and audiovisual resources that promote learning withinthe university, from home, and in remote environments.