That’s interesting. I’ve never been able to watch video lectures for anything. I think speed is an issue. Reading, I can go at my own (fast) pace. I have a lot of randomly scattered general knowledge from past reading, so in textbooks there are bits and pieces I can skim over if I know I already understand those areas. With videos, the slower pace of speech feels dragging, and I can’t tell without actually listening to the whole video whether or not I’m missing something. Videos might be an effective learning method, but for me they’re less efficient. (Then again, I don’t think distraction or disliking the subject has ever been my biggest problem when reading.)
You might want to try watching videos in a player that lets you adjust the speed, like VLC player. You still can’t skim video as fast as text, but being able to apply a 2x speedup makes a lot of things much more watchable.
I ended up on this old thread, and just wanted to point out that most MOOCs now have players with adjustable speed. Not sure what was available 2 years ago.
That’s interesting. I’ve never been able to watch video lectures for anything. I think speed is an issue. Reading, I can go at my own (fast) pace. I have a lot of randomly scattered general knowledge from past reading, so in textbooks there are bits and pieces I can skim over if I know I already understand those areas. With videos, the slower pace of speech feels dragging, and I can’t tell without actually listening to the whole video whether or not I’m missing something. Videos might be an effective learning method, but for me they’re less efficient. (Then again, I don’t think distraction or disliking the subject has ever been my biggest problem when reading.)
You might want to try watching videos in a player that lets you adjust the speed, like VLC player. You still can’t skim video as fast as text, but being able to apply a 2x speedup makes a lot of things much more watchable.
I ended up on this old thread, and just wanted to point out that most MOOCs now have players with adjustable speed. Not sure what was available 2 years ago.