Comprehension Questions?
Coursera courses follow a disturbing pattern that is not educationally sound. Watch a video. Watch another video. Watch another video. Watch another video. Quiz. Any teacher worth hiring can easily point out that this looks suspiciously like aiming a firehouse full of information at learners and expecting them to get “something” out of all those videos.
Best practice: give learners comprehension questions before each video. It doesn’t matter if completing them is required. Any learner who wants to maximize the benefit they get from the course will answer them thoughtfully and then check their answers after completing them. There’s no excuse for why Coursera doesn’t require this and learners are kidding themselves if they think writing notes and/or just watching is enough.
Also, don’t ask learners to watch a few videos and then ask a very detailed question from three videos ago. If you didn’t signify that it was important to me while watching the video, it isn’t reasonable that I will have paid enough attention to make a note of it in anticipation of a quiz question.
Overall, Coursera, like Duolingo, borders on edutainment. You feel good because you’re “doing something”, much like someone going to the gym to watch other people exercise while they sit on the equipment doing nothing. But let’s not kid ourselves: you’re not getting nearly as much as you should from these courses if Coursera can’t follow best practices.
Best practice: give learners comprehension questions before each video. It doesn’t matter if completing them is required. Any learner who wants to maximize the benefit they get from the course will answer them thoughtfully and then check their answers after completing them. There’s no excuse for why Coursera doesn’t require this and learners are kidding themselves if they think writing notes and/or just watching is enough.
Also, don’t ask learners to watch a few videos and then ask a very detailed question from three videos ago. If you didn’t signify that it was important to me while watching the video, it isn’t reasonable that I will have paid enough attention to make a note of it in anticipation of a quiz question.
Overall, Coursera, like Duolingo, borders on edutainment. You feel good because you’re “doing something”, much like someone going to the gym to watch other people exercise while they sit on the equipment doing nothing. But let’s not kid ourselves: you’re not getting nearly as much as you should from these courses if Coursera can’t follow best practices.
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Laggy app
- if you pause the video it gets stuck on load then you have to open and close the video to continue playing it
- transcript text isn’t highlighted
- note saving does not allow for text selection and it’s not immediately clear that the note has been saved
For how expensive coursera subscription is the app could have been better!
- transcript text isn’t highlighted
- note saving does not allow for text selection and it’s not immediately clear that the note has been saved
For how expensive coursera subscription is the app could have been better!
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