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Ben Os
20,008 PointsI think each treehouse video shouldn't be more than 5 minutes long
If you need to split just a bit longer, please do.
I think that if a video is more than 5 minutes long, in certain topics it might become too heavy or to containing for many viewers. I am not saying that on each such video (length > 5 minues). I really don't,but I do think you guys should do best to avoid passing the 5 minute length for each video (unless it's a workshop or a conference).
There are sometimes very long videos (in comparison to many others here) which are 11 or 12 minute long videos and in certain cases (like in a complex topic or when a teacher talks so fast (and lowering the speed isn't very efficient has it can cause sound problems), so that the whole lesson becomes quite undidactic.
I really encourage the Treehouse team to do what they can not to pass the 5 minutes to ensure hightest level of didacticacy in this variable of video-length (I emphasis again that I talk only on courses and not on workshops or confrences).
I don't want to give particular examples but I felt this in a most frequent way in a few advanced PHP courses and One MySQL course.
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Dave McFarland
Treehouse TeacherThanks for the feedback Ben Aharoni. We strive to keep our videos as short as possible while still meeting our learning objectives. Sometimes it takes just a minute to get a learning objective across; sometimes 6 minutes. And sometimes it's a bit longer. We're aware that people's ability to focus and pay attention is limited, and that after a time, our minds wander. In addition, it's possible to put too many ideas into a single video: these leads to videos being both too long, and covering too much information for a student to take in. You'll notice that our Treehouse courses have evolved with time and that our newer courses tend to have shorter, more focused videos.
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