Over the last couple of years having access to online learning has become even more important. The need for engaging educational content to keep the homeschooled, distant learners or employees interested in learning and studying has skyrocketed during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Educators, students, and trainers no longer rely on wordy textbooks as learning resources. Online educational content needs to be engaging and fun and animation is the perfect medium for this.

We’ve compiled some questions and answers to consider before commissioning your own series of educational animated videos.

Which Animated Style Do I Need For My e Learning Series?

Each type of eLearner requires a different style of animation. By understanding their needs, animation studios will produce content that appeals to them and increases their learning quality.

Animation can be used for all types of eLearning:

Pre-school
Key Stages 1-3
GCSE & A-Levels
Further Education Students & Staff
Corporate employees

Pre-school and school-age children love songs and bright colours. They also enjoy funny characters. The more fun the course the more children learn.

Further education students, staff & corporate employees require animation that is professional and academic yet interesting! They may already spend a lot of time looking at charts and figures - they don’t need more. So despite requiring animation to be corporate and professional it still needs to be fun to keep the audience connected.

At Kino Bino, we can work in a variety of styles to suit your educational series. Take a look at some showreel for some ideas.

How Long Should My e Learning Videos And Series Be?

Taking a language course as an example. A 2-3-minute video for each lesson is about right for school age children.

An animated video for young adults and employees should also start at around 3 minutes and not exceed 6 minutes. Information is less likely to be retained if they are any longer.

A series of animated language videos for school children for example will need to cover the key areas and subjects and we find a minimum of eight to ten videos would be required for a beginners course.

Of course, every educational and training course is different and ultimately we will work with you to understand how long each video should be and how many animated videos are required for your specific series.

How Can Animation Make Educational Series Memorable?

There is no point in creating amazing animation if the viewer instantly forgets what they have just seen. Colourful and fun characters are essential to creating educational content that is memorable. The human brain tends to retain visual information better and quicker than text.

Storytelling is also key to creating memorable educational animation. If the viewer is taken on a journey of discovery with an engaging story they’ll remember the concepts delivered to them. Take a look at our Kung Fu Kingdom project to meet Candy & Mike.

How Does Animation Explain Complicated Information?

Animation can simplify otherwise complex concepts and information making them easier for learners to understand. Certain things, such as new business ideas, languages, scientific research or statistics could be confusing if explained through only text and static images. Animated videos can replace text and images too complicated for learners, with engaging animation that is simple to follow.

Why Is an Animated Series Required?

To achieve the effectiveness of an education and training course, it pays to be consistent with the use of animation. An animated introduction video is great, you’ll get the learner interested from the very beginning but imagine if the rest of the course just uses text and images. Engagement will be lost so continuing with a series of animated videos limits learners from getting disinterested.

If you have a lot of content to teach it also pays to break them down into smaller bitesize chunks. So rather than have one 15 minute video you could have 4-5 shorter ones which will be easier to digest and give viewers the chance to soak up the information without being overloaded.

There is some great educational content online from YouTube channels such as Ted-Ed and Kurzgesagt to British specialists BBC Bitesize and BBC Teach. So if you have something to teach then why not create a mini-series to get your lesson across.

We hope we have answered your queries and questions about animated educational series but if you still have further questions or want us to help you put together your own series of videos then get in touch.