MOOC overal design (duration, interactivity,...)

[jcolomb]

Hi all,
We now (2019-01-11) have produced some content and I think it is time to think more about how it should be given to the students. For instance, I heard that online courses should not exceed 10 minutes duration for each unit. We are clearly not following that in the MOOC.

I personally have no expertise here, but I did not see many critics from the people with expertise yet.

So time for feedback ?!

[jgmac1106]

You are mixing up a few details. Online video sweet spot is 7-10 minutes. In open pedagogy, modules are community-based and not time-based. In a self-paced course labeled as a MOOC, I wouldn't exceed 45 minutes and would really try for twenty minutes.

[Protohedgehog]

As it currently is, for this MOOC the main recording comes in at 58 minutes, which I admit is quite long. However, what I've done also is separate this into 2 shorter sections that can be divided in the MOOC platform, like we did for module 5 here: https://eliademy.com/catalog/oer/module-5-open-research-software-and-open-source.html

[jcolomb]

dear @jgmac1106, thank you so much for your input. As a non-specialist, I do not really understand the concepts, do we have some links somewhere to explanatory material, or is wikipedia the place to go ?

Short question: does this kind of information useful/necessary for the creation of the material, or would it be sufficient to have a team of specialists transforming the content into "open pedagogy ready" form once the information has been collected be the expert of the topic?

[Protohedgehog]

Thinking more about the above, it should be relatively easy to transform this into smaller sub-sections, based on the existing structure.