A hybrid student told me that as far as students are concerned, any teaching tutorial had better be short. "How short?" I asked. "What's the average length of a youtube video?" he said, laughing.
According to a 2012 Pew Center for journalism report the median length of popular youtube videos was about 2 minutes. Another source says the average length (not limited to popular ones) was around 4 minutes (as of 2010).
In order to make tutorials shorter I have finally come around to taking the advice to write scripts before recording. This seems cumbersome, but I'm finding it's the only way to bring the time down.
Alice - The other advantage to having scripts --- It makes it easier to include the script or captions. Any video we post is SUPPOSED to have captions or a script, a requirement of ADA.
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