| Video Type | Application purpose | Application method | Application Features |
| Focused video | Supporting teachers in accomplishing their professional development goals more efficiently and adaptively, and in solving their practical teaching problems in a more targeted manner | Video clips that need to be carefully selected and edited to reflect key events and important features of the classroom | Demonstrate the most significant teaching activities or tasks in the classroom from multiple perspectives |
| Integrated video | Supporting teachers’ contextualized understanding of teaching and learning, as well as self-directed exploration and learning of complex, ill-structured constructs of teacher expertise | Linking videos and various types of classroom background information | Enrich video-centered instructional support that creates a cognitively resilient learning environment |
| Scripted video/Analog video | Training and testing (pre-service) teachers’ professional knowledge and skills | Developing instructional scripted or simulation videos based on evidence from theoretical research and practical experience | The presentation of a pre-planned, artificial classroom situation is a manifestation of practice approximation |
| 360˚ panoramic video | Providing teachers with real-life-like sensory and imaginative experiences that promote embodied reflection | Record and capture all aspects of the classroom using a 360˚ camera, and observe using a VR headset or a device that supports 360-degree video playback | Enrich video presentation perspectives, based on real classrooms for a more immersive experience |