{"id":47083,"date":"2014-08-05T19:58:49","date_gmt":"2014-08-05T23:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=47083"},"modified":"2014-08-12T11:07:12","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T15:07:12","slug":"what-6-9-million-clicks-tell-us-about-how-to-fix-online-education-mit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2014\/08\/05\/what-6-9-million-clicks-tell-us-about-how-to-fix-online-education-mit\/","title":{"rendered":"What 6.9 million clicks tell us about how to fix online education [MIT]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"What 6.9 million clicks tell us about how to fix online education\" href=\"http:\/\/newsoffice.mit.edu\/2014\/what-69-million-clicks-tell-us-about-how-fix-online-education\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47084\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6pt9millionclicks-MIT-Aug2014.jpg\" alt=\"6pt9millionclicks-MIT-Aug2014\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6pt9millionclicks-MIT-Aug2014.jpg 685w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/6pt9millionclicks-MIT-Aug2014-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 685px) 100vw, 685px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">Note the following excerpt, reflecting upon if such conclusions might also serve our face-to-face classrooms as well:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fpgbovine.net%2Fpublications%2FedX-MOOC-video-production-and-engagement_LAS-2014.pdf&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNFOPnzlmX5yCh7zeRQSFTV-wBfuXw\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> published this spring, the CSAIL team outlined some key findings on what online learners want from videos. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Brevity (viewers generally tune out after six minutes)<\/li>\n<li>Informality, with professors seated at a desk, not standing behind a podium<\/li>\n<li>Lively visuals rather than static PowerPoint slides<\/li>\n<li>Fast talkers (professors seen as the most engaging spoke at 254 words per minute)<\/li>\n<li>More pauses, so viewers can soak in complex diagrams<\/li>\n<li>Web-friendly lessons (existing videos broken into shorter chunks are less effective than ones crafted for online audiences)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; From DSC: Note the following excerpt, reflecting upon if such conclusions might also serve our face-to-face classrooms as well: In a paper published this spring, the CSAIL team outlined some key findings on what online learners want from videos. These include: Brevity (viewers generally tune out after six minutes) Informality, with professors seated at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,119,62,173,66,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-higher-education","category-instructional-design","category-online-learning","category-pedagogy","category-student-related","category-teaching-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47149,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47083\/revisions\/47149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}