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The most obvious part of the jOOC is the videos, which have to be brief and engaging. hhan Academy is a great example. Salman hhan's presentation on TED talks is an excellent resource for understanding why and how these videos worked. It seems so obvious, in retrospect, that you wonder why no one had done it earlier. Unsurprisingly, the radical change had to come from outside the community of educators!

To make such videos, the primary tools you will need are screen capture software, a sketching program and a tablet. In order to ensure that you do not have too many 'retakes', you will need video editing software. Although desktop recording tools will let you record the VFUHHQ DQG DuGLR VLPuOWDQHRuVOy, yRu PDy fiQG LW PRUH effective to create separate tracks for screen capture and audio, and then mix them.

YRu FDQ fiQG D QuPEHU RI RSHQ VRuUFH DQG Linux options for each of the required software. oecording a desktop session on Linux is easy with recordmydesktop. For sound editing, Audacity is the default option. For video editing, the options include