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This research focuses on the educational use of digital videos (DVs) for supporting meaningful learning in the primary school and university contexts. Educational use is understood as including both using and producing DVs. The topic is explored using an integrated process approach, that is, emphasizing how the educational use of DVs is integrated into instructional processes as a whole. The aim of this research on its most general level is to develop teaching and learning processes, as well as their outcomes. More specifically, its goal is to gain a research-based understanding of the integrated educational use of DVs for promoting meaningful learning and to use this understanding in the design and implementation of DV-supported university courses. In pursuing these aims, the research addresses the challenges for the primary school and universities posed by working life and digital media cultures as well as a number needs identified in previous and the present research. Doctoral dissertation by Ms. Päivi Hakkarainen, University of Lapland, Finland. Her website: http://paivihakkarainen.wordpress.com/