Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online learning

Re:Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online lea... by _yawn on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:01PM (#18135524)

I'm going to go against the grain here but just putting cameras in classrooms and dumping that on Youtube works just fine. The content on MIT opencourseware feels a lot nicer than things like Coursera or others even if it's more traditional. At the end of the day you just want to communicate efficiently, and imperfect access to information is a lot nicer than no access. Don't sweat the details.

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Re:Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online lea... by rlayton2 on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:15PM (#18135591)

The only problem here is sound. Sound can be hard to get right, and I've stopped watching lots of interesting "meetup recordings" on YouTube because they just used the on-camera microphone and the audio was awful. It's a shame, but it makes it nearly impossible to watch.

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Re:Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online lea... by _yawn on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:35PM (#18135700)

That's very true, videos that record powerpoints are also often hard to read.

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Re:Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online lea... by tsumnia on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:21PM (#18135630)

Actually, that style of recording has the worst engagement when compared to Khan Academy or Talk Head styled videos that were smaller chunks [1].

[1] https://blog.edx.org/how-mooc-video-production-affects

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Re:Why we need more than “learn at your own pace” online lea... by _yawn on Wednesday October 03, 2018 @07:34PM (#18135698)

That's an interesting study. I feel like maybe engagement is the wrong metric, much how like A/B testing gives a good local result but a poor global result. I finished a dozen or so of the traditional courses but can't be bothered to complete the split up ones. I'm surely not the only one.

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