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How Long Should My Online Lessons Be?

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But others are torn between the quick, punchy length of YouTube videos and the hour-long lecture format typical of college courses. This has been a common criticism of the traditional lecture format for many years. Lectures, whether written or presented as videos, are a form of passive engagement. Which is better?

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7 Benefits of Blended Learning

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Teachers must continually print handouts, repeat lectures, and perform administrative tasks that, in an online system, might otherwise be automated. In a traditional lecture scenario, students have to take notes in order to save information for later. Listening to a lecture, whether online or in person, is a passive learning activity.

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Why Colleges Should Think Long-Term with Online Education

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We may expect students and teachers to stay home more frequently if they have any kind of cold or flu symptoms, for instance, and a student staying home with a mild cough will still want to access the day’s lecture. Colleges have a chance to invest in quality lecture recordings and innovate with online materials.

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8 Ways to Flip the Classroom for Your Online Course

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The traditional classroom structure has teachers delivering lectures during class time, and learners working on problem sets at home. However, online classes offer instructors a way to reverse that scenario by delivering class lecture content over the Internet, and using class time to work more directly with learners.

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How Long Should Videos Be for E-Learning?

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If your video strategy for creating course videos was to tape a lecture and throw it online, it’s unlikely many of your learners are staying till the end. Because a forty-five-minute lecture is more than what the average learner can process in one sitting. And how short is too short?

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How to Incorporate Flexible Learning Into Your Online Courses

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This can also include how much of the material is delivered via new technology and how much is presented in a more traditional book or lecture. Online education is also portable – that is, learners can learn at home, on their lunch break at work or on their daily commute, listening to lectures via podcast.

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Are You Using Low-Stakes Writing Assignments in Your Course?

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Write an outline of a lecture video. When you’re making a lecture series, clearly state the important material at the beginning and review it at the end. At the end, ask your learners to write an outline based on your lecture. Mark them according to how well they cover all the key points of the article. Write a headline.

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