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CERTIFICATE ONLINE LECTURE DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
Basic Adult Online Learning Principles Guidelines for Online Course Video Length: Try to keep each of your videos shorter than 10 minutes. The average human attention span is 8.25 seconds. Attention spans can vary from 2 seconds for some people to more than 20 minutes for very few people. To be effective, each video in your program should be no more than 10 minutes. You may also hear this referred to as dividing your content into “digestible chunks”. The Importance of Resting or Stopping Points. If necessary, your training courses may have many videos. As you plan your online course videos, consider natural stopping points for your students to “take time” to digest the knowledge you're teaching them, and take little steps toward the end goal. This 'resting point' is often the ideal place to conclude one video and transition into the next. You can divide your video into part 1, 2, 3 etc. Deya Garcia Zea, Ph.D.