{"id":69630,"date":"2020-02-13T16:24:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-13T21:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69630"},"modified":"2020-02-14T09:40:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T14:40:42","slug":"in-case-its-a-helpful-reminder-6-9-minutes-is-the-optimal-length-for-a-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/02\/13\/in-case-its-a-helpful-reminder-6-9-minutes-is-the-optimal-length-for-a-video\/","title":{"rendered":"In case it&#8217;s a helpful reminder: 6-9 minutes is the optimal length for a video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edx.org\/optimal-video-length-student-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from blog.edx.org by Candace Hazlett and Philip Guo<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">In this first post, I\u2019ll share some preliminary results about video usage, obtained from initial analyses of a few edX math and science courses. Unsurprisingly, students engaged more with shorter videos. Traditional in-person lectures usually last an hour, but students have much shorter attention spans when watching educational videos online. The graph below shows median engagement times versus video length, aggregated over several million video watching sessions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.edx.org\/optimal-video-length-student-engagement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-69631 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/edX-OptimalVideoLength-Med-957x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/edX-OptimalVideoLength-Med-957x1024.jpg 957w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/edX-OptimalVideoLength-Med-140x150.jpg 140w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/edX-OptimalVideoLength-Med-768x822.jpg 768w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/edX-OptimalVideoLength-Med.jpg 1118w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 957px) 100vw, 957px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #339966;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">If you have access to a tool like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructure.com\/canvas\/higher-education\/platform\/products\/canvas-studio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Canvas Studio,<\/a> then you can probably extend the length of your videos if you are interspersing your videos with a healthy dose of interactivity &#8212; i.e., inserting quiz questions every few minutes.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement &#8212; from blog.edx.org by Candace Hazlett and Philip Guo Excerpt: In this first post, I\u2019ll share some preliminary results about video usage, obtained from initial analyses of a few edX math and science courses. Unsurprisingly, students engaged more with shorter videos. Traditional in-person lectures usually last an hour, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[322,394,28,115,498,302,141,3,419,119,64,46,102,7,228,15,505,23,62,133,196,269,66,89,50,188,214,156,312],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjunct-faculty","category-attention","category-cmslms","category-colleges","category-communities-of-practice","category-community-colleges","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-higher-education","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-it-in-he","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-preferences","category-lifelong-learning","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-multimedia","category-online-learning","category-online-media","category-productivity-tips-and-tricks","category-professional-development","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-teaching-online","category-universities","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69630"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69636,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69630\/revisions\/69636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}