Video as a Means for the Academic Improvement of a Profession: A Discussion of Theory-Generating Practices in University Pedagogy

Video as a means for learning is a growing field in Danish university education. Different settings that include videos, such as video conferences or video streaming, have been tried out in order to overcome distances between teachers and learners. But video is also used as a means for facilitating learning situations in physical spaces at the university in the form of students’ own video productions. The article serves two purposes: 1) to discuss a pedagogical approach to enhancing master students’ analytical skills, and 2) to discuss the potentials of designing teaching and learning processes that both serve as education and empirical data for educational research in universities 3) to introduce and discuss the methodological potentials of the concept of theory-generating practices.