Video clips for YouTube: Collaborative video creation as an educational concept for knowledge acquisition and attitude change related to obesity stigmatization Carmen Zahn & Norbert Schaeffeler & Katrin Elisabeth Giel & Daniel Wessel & Ansgar Thiel & Stephan Zipfel & Friedrich W. Hesse Published online: 19 September 2013 # Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 Abstract Mobile phones and advanced web-based video tools have pushed forward new paradigms for using video in education: Today, students can readily create and broadcast their own digital videos for others and create entirely new patterns of video-based information structures for modern online-communities and multimedia environments. This paradigm shift in video usage can be used for advanced learning about complex topics in higher education, for example, learning about socio-scientific or medical topics. Yet–technology aside–applicable educational concepts using collaborative video creation as a method need to be developed. In the present study, we investigate a specific concept Educ Inf Technol (2014) 19:603–621 DOI 10.1007/s10639-013-9277-5 C. Zahn (*) University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Riggenbachstrasse 16, 4600 Olten, Switzerland e-mail: carmen.zahn@fhnw.ch N. Schaeffeler : K. E. Giel : S. Zipfel Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, University Medical Hospital of Tuebingen, Osianderstrasse 5, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany N. Schaeffeler e-mail: norbert.schaeffeler@med.uni-tuebingen.de K. E. Giel e-mail: katrin.giel@med.uni-tuebingen.de S. Zipfel e-mail: stephan.zipfel@med.uni-tuebingen.de D. Wessel : F. W. Hesse Knowledge Media Research Center, Schleichstrasse 6, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany D. Wessel e-mail: d.wessel@iwm-kmrc.de A. Thiel University of Tuebingen, Wilhelmstrasse 124, 72074 Tuebingen, Germany e-mail: ansgar.thiel@uni-tuebingen.de