A beginner-friendly introduction to the "Concept" lecture series, featuring engaging PowerPoint animations

Lecture videos animated with PowerPoint as audio and visual stimulus cover different learning methodologies and are concurrently implemented in higher education. They are widely used by students in tradional courses and online courses. PowerPoint is a powerful production tool offering a wide range of possibilities to motivational arrangement of digital visualization. The program is widely available, easily accessible, there are multiple open access tutorials and most instructors and students have common knowledge of the program. Using the basic function animated lecture videos (not screencasts which are voice-over slides only!) can be successfully produced by guided student project groups (peer-to-peer approach) as well as instructors. The concept of producing and implementing PowerPoint lecture videos is introduced with respect to teaching material science to first year engineering students, the special needs of these students, sustainable easy production and implementation in blended teaching scenarios.