{"id":522,"date":"2015-06-16T10:14:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T09:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/numoocs\/?p=522"},"modified":"2021-09-17T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-17T15:24:04","slug":"video-length","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2015\/06\/16\/video-length\/","title":{"rendered":"Video length"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/09\/such_fun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-661 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/09\/such_fun.jpg\" alt=\"On location at The Wall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/09\/such_fun.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/files\/2014\/09\/such_fun-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On our second run of Hadrian&#8217;s Wall we&#8217;ll be using this blog to address some of the frequently asked questions that arise on the course.\u00a0 A couple of learners have asked about the length of the videos.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find that all of our videos are under 5 minutes in length. That has been done intentionally so that no single step requires too much time. While this can be disappointing for a topic you are interested in, it works very well in practice, particularly if you consider the course in full with approximately 20 steps in each of 6 weeks.\u00a0 The short videos also force the educator to distil in a clear way what the main points are.<\/p>\n<p>We know from research (eg <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edx.org\/blog\/optimal-video-length-student-engagement\">this paper from Philip Guo<\/a>) that when videos are longer that learners can lose interest.\u00a0 If you&#8217;d like to read a little more about some of our thinking on building the course have a look at our blog post on<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2014\/06\/30\/educational-vodka-making-every-step-count-2\/\"> Educational Vodka<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On our second run of Hadrian&#8217;s Wall we&#8217;ll be using this blog to address some of the frequently asked questions that arise on the course.\u00a0 A couple of learners have asked about the length of the videos. You&#8217;ll find that all of our videos are under 5 minutes in length. That has been done intentionally &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/2015\/06\/16\/video-length\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Video length&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,698],"tags":[126,197],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moocs","category-video-audio","tag-hadrians-wall-2","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3612,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions\/3612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/ltdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}