“When I ask most people to describe EDpuzzle, they respond with something along the lines of: “a tool for teachers to embed questions into videos, primarily to be used to assign homework.” What’s missing here is the power of EDpuzzle as a student creation tool...for project-based learning. By creating “Student projects” in EDpuzzle, teachers can allow students to do the authoring.”
—Stacey Roshan
EDpuzzle. Have you ever heard about EDpuzzle—the 81st listed tech tool on Jane Hart’s (2016) top 200 tools for learning? If you have, what’s your opinion of it? Do you give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down? If you have no idea what EDpuzzle is, you’re in the right place to learn about it! As my goal for this Online Learning Tools Presentation is to critically review, from a professional and applicability standpoint, the software known as EDpuzzle. Yes, I’ll review EDpuzzle—an interactive online video-editing tool with analytics for engaging learners—from an online instructor’s perspective. But before I do so, if you’re a novice to EDpuzzle or need an example of what an EDpuzzle video looks like in action, then I’d like for you to check out this tutorial and review video that veteran educator Adam Howard (2015) created. If you are sufficiently familiar with EDpuzzle’s video learning lessons, then proceed with my review.