Students reported that long recorded lectures impeded focus, and one student appreciated an instructor's choice to break lectures into shorter videos¶

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Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-15 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

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q1 i? Students in interviews and focus groups commented that the length of recorded lecture material was an impediment to maintaining focus on course content. → Means 2020

Evidence¶

Means 2020¶

Means, B., Peters, V., Neisler, J., & Griffiths, R. (2020). STEM Courses During the COVID Pandemic: Lessons from Spring 2020. Digital Promise Global. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/7900cb79-6ea5-44d0-aad6-34aa81e9bf4b

q1 · i? · qualitative · r2

Case study data: a biology student described retaining little across 20-minute viewing stretches, while a student in a different biology course, where the instructor split lecture material into about eight shorter videos, appreciated that choice, saying that with a hearing disability "having one long lecture wouldn't have worked". These are individual students' accounts from case studies, not a measure of how widely shorter segments were appreciated.

"A number of students in interviews and focus groups commented on the length of recorded course lecture material as an impediment to maintaining focus on course content."

Discussion¶

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