Educators who have used standards-aligned videos to deliver subject-specific course content have likely witnessed an increase in student understanding of the content. Research shows that working memory can be increased when the brain is processing visual and auditory input.

When students are asked to curate videos that reflect specific standards and objectives, they are receiving the benefits of visual and auditory input while they exercise these critical thinking and problem solving skills: analyzing content for accuracy and relevance, accepting or rejecting content based on criteria that guide the scope of the collection, and designing an organizational system for storing and sharing the curated collection.

Students could work collaboratively on adding to the collection and organizing it.