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Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom by Jon on March 21, 2011 in Classroom Learning , Video , blended learning Where do the most innovate ideas in learning come from?

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eLearning & Training: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

According to  Joan Middendorf  and  Alan Kalish , Indiana University, "Adult learners can keep tuned in to a lecture for no more than  15 to 20 minutes  at a time." " Granted, a learner accessing your eLearning lesson will have a greater attention span than a typical web surfer--or even a goldfish.

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Random Thoughts on Passive Learning and Lectures

Kapp Notes

The study of 225 studies stated that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 This was attributed to Eric Mazur, a physicist at Harvard University who has campaigned against stale lecturing techniques for 27 years and was not involved in the study indicated above.

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Adobe Captivate & eLearning: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

According to  Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish , Indiana University, "Adult learners can keep tuned in to a lecture for no more than 15 to 20 minutes at a time." As the lecture proceeded the attention span became shorter and often fell to three or four minutes towards the end of a standard lecture.

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7 Technical Tips for Creating Video Lectures

eLearning Brothers

Check out 7 tips for creating video lectures on how to put together text, visuals and audio for the ultimate video lecturing experience. Creating video lectures these days is a piece of cake. As for recording a video lecture, the first thing that comes to mind is Microsoft Office Mix. Engaging text is half the battle.

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10 Reasons Every University Must Invest in Online Program Development

Hurix Digital

Review Lectures: According to psychologist Jonathan Schooler from University of California, in a classroom session of 45 minutes, students are likely to lose attention about 5 times, which means that they will miss out on vital points during a lecture. Again, students unable to attend the lecture can catch up with the class.

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or not to lecture

Learning with e's

In my previous post I wrote that even though research shows lectures to be less than effective in helping students to learn, they still persist in higher education. The key question is: What can replace the lecture? Worse still, they may decide not to attend lectures at all. There is no point simply talking at them for an hour.

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