What if students created viral videos as course projects?

Creating viral videos on purpose? It might just work!

Sure, writing papers is academically significant and is a way to demonstrate understanding, analysis, and such. No question that putting together a website is collaborative and there are opportunities to make changes after peers offer feedback on the project.

But, what if good videos carried a good message – and through great distribution, affected thousands of people and how they think? What if content was presented in a persuasive way, and had immediate impact? We can shoot for the stars, right?

Truth is that a good story is part of the success. Viral by itself isn’t much, it has to have a message. But it also needs to be produced well. What if we could attract high-quality production people? What if there were local resources we could rely on? This might be worth looking into.

This video is one of those viral ones. The article presents a perspective on the process (you will not be able to miss the sales pitch in it for Visual.ly, but there is good content nonetheless).