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What Are Educational Videos?

Educational videos teach, inform, and guide viewers on a particular subject.

These videos can be classroom lectures, online course, internal and external training manuals, tutorials and how-to guides, and documentaries.

These educational videos make complex topics easier to understand. Most of these videos utilize visuals like images, animations, and motion graphics in form of engaging narratives to reinforce learning.

You’ll find use of educational videos on almost every online and physical platform: like classrooms and corporate offices, co-working spaces, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, virtual offices and coffee houses and so on.

Educational Videos

How Much Does It Cost to Make Educational Videos?

It costs between $135 to $2,500 to make an educational video if you are considering factors like video length, illustration style, professional voiceovers and animation. However, with AI, you can make an education video for as low as $3.

AI Video Generation vs Traditional Video Production

Here’s a detailed breakdown of the cost of making educational videos:

Traditional Animation or Professional Video Production

• Cost: $500 to $2,500 per minute
• This method requires hiring professionals for voiceovers and animation, software, and equipment.

AI Video Creation (e.g., ImagineShorts)

• Cost: $5 to $50 per video
• AI tools significantly reduce costs, and make it easy and affordable to create educational videos at scale.

Types of Educational Videos

Why is it important to know the type of these educational videos?

Because all educational videos have one primary goal: simplifying complex ideas — and then based on video type, each content piece can have a unique objective, or share a common one, which takes me to discussing the types of educational videos in this section.

Demand for Educational Videos

1. Classroom Teaching Videos

These videos address students or trainees, and are made for live or recorded classroom settings.

Teachers, trainers and other educators use classroom teaching videos for in-person learning sessions, as well as remote and blended learning.

Classroom Videos

Classroom teaching videos can include explanations, demonstrations, and presentations designed to be shown during class.

Now with AI, it’s super easy to create classroom videos.

With digital avatars, you can use a face as an ambassador for a topic and subject, and create long as well as short form tutorials. Play in class, give out as homework, pause and discuss and assess in the end: sky is your limit!

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2. eLearning Videos

eLearning videos are designed to facilitate online education specially, often on platforms like Udemy, Coursera, or Teachable.

These videos are typically more structured and in-depth, often feature lectures, quizzes, and assignments.

These elearning videos can take forms of explainers, as well as faceless videos with images and static visuals like a slideshow.

3. Online Course Videos

These videos are part of a larger curriculum and are often broken into modules or lessons. They can range from technical tutorials to language learning and everything in between.

Online Courses Videos

When you come across a linux short course on YouTube, that’s an epic example of online course videos, for free!

4. Training Videos

Corporations and businesses use training videos to onboard new employees as well as customers, teach specific skills, or, most popular these days, provide safety training.

These videos are often in-depth and can include step-by-step guides.

Training Videos

For example, training videos can be shipped as part of emails. They can include series of topics like creating a secure password, assessing recorded meditation sessions, attaching claim forms for insurance etc.

5. How-To Instructional Videos and Tutorials

This category includes instructional videos that teach specific topic, such as how to use software, how to cook a dish, or how to perform a science experiment.

Instructional Videos

These videos are typically very hands-on and practical.

6. Documentary Videos

Documentaries explore scientific, historical, or societal topics in-depth. Educational documentaries often aim to inform and engage viewers, presenting facts, narratives, and interesting visualizations, for example, the mummification process, the inventions of Marie Curie, World War II diaries etc.

Documentary Videos

You’ll notice that some education video ideas can take face of documentaries as well as explainers. So, it’s eventually the course content and delivery style that makes the difference.

Creating Educational Videos with AI - Fast and Smart!

Creating educational videos is simpler with AI short video generators like ImagineShorts, video editors and legacy AI video generation tools.

Types of Video Generation Settings in ImagineShorts

For example, ImagineShorts helps you to easily create high-quality educational videos by simply entering a prompt or script, and then choosing a voiceover and caption style. And in literally 4 steps your video is ready. The platform generates animations, voiceovers, and even syncing with the visuals to match the tone and pacing of the content. Plus, you can choose the style you want: realistic or cinematic for history content, cartoon-style illustrations for fun-loving kids, claymation and miniature to make subjects more interesting and so on.

These AI tools are fast, fun and require absolutely no editing skills: just type in your idea and you will literally find a script, voiceover, narration and recorded clips.

How to Create Educational Videos - Step-by-Step Guide

Step 1: Choose Your Topic

Select a clear, focused topic for your educational video. Identify your target audience and the level of detail required for the topic. Then create a prompt and enter in the text area.

Then select settings like tone, language, length and style of video.

Step 2: Write a Script or Outline

Review the script generated by ImagineShorts. Make tweaks if you wish or copy paste the script you want to use.

Step 3: Create the Video

Choose aspect ratio, style of illustrations, background music and narrative voice.

Step 4: Edit and Upload

Download and use your educational videos.

Educational Video Best Practices

Follow these best practices so your educational videos are effective and engaging:

• Keep video concise

Break down complex concepts into smaller, easy-to-digest sections.

• Use Visuals and Graphics

Visual aids like diagrams, animations, and charts help reinforce understanding.

• Add Clear Audio

Clear narration is essential for explaining concepts. Use a quality microphone or AI voiceovers to make narration crisp, energetic and professional.

• Engage with Interactive Content

Encourage viewer interaction by adding questions, quizzes, or calls to action in your videos.

• Optimize for Accessibility

Include captions or subtitles for accessibility and wider reach.

How to make money with educational videos?

You can monetize educational videos in so many creative and direct ways. Here are my top 4 recommendations:

1. YouTube Ad Revenue

Once your channel gains 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours, you can join the YouTube Partner Program and start earning revenue from ads. Keep making educational videos in your niche, publish, analyse and earn on auto-pilot.

Recommended Read: YouTube Shorts Monetization

2. Affiliate Marketing

Promote educational products like books, tools, or software in your video descriptions and earn commissions on sales. Targets and Walmart have their affiliate programs, if you are promoting physical products. Promote websites like Udemy and Coursera and IXL if you want to make money with digital affiliates.

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3. Selling Digital Products

Turn your educational content into paid resources such as courses, eBooks, or worksheets. Publish these videos as trailers of your lessons and bring traffic to your products.

4. Sponsorships

As your channel grows, you can secure sponsorships from brands in the education or tech space.

Ready to make money with educational videos?

How to make educational videos interesting?

Educational YouTube Channel Ideas to Kickstart Your Journey

Stuck on what kind of content to make? Here are winning educational YouTube channel ideas you can start and automate with ImagineShorts, without showing your face:

1. Study Hacks & Memory Tricks – Bite-sized brain boosters for students.
2. Animated Science Shorts – Fun explainers on black holes, the human body, or quantum physics.
3. Grammar Made Easy – Quick fixes for common mistakes with visuals and examples.
4. AI for Beginners – Tutorials on how to use AI tools for work or school.
5. History in 60 Seconds – Big moments broken down with storytelling and motion graphics.
6. Career & Soft Skills – Teach time management, public speaking, or digital literacy.
7. Math Tricks & Visualizations – Show equations through animations (great for Shorts!).
8. Edutainment for Kids – Rhymes, ABCs, fun facts, or animated vocabulary builders.

Remember: Niche down, stay consistent, and use short formats to test ideas quickly.

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