Lengthy e-learning course
Hey community,
Having a little battle within the team that we're not calling a ‘battle’, but a ‘conversation’ about prime length of e-learning courses.
We have 4 homemade courses that are likely to last 3 hours each. It's also likely the course will only be spilt into 1 lesson. So essentially, a 3 hour lesson. No. Strike that. 4 x 3 hour lessons. Grim, right?
What's the longest course/lesson you've got?
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Heather
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Hi Heather, I've just done a quick glance via a PowerBI report to check this and we have some courses that are around 90 mins but these tend to be leadership courses whereby there are activities and a workbook so its a more interactive, stop and reflect type activity. Most other eLearning modules are around 30-40 mins. 3 hours does seems a lot but I guess it depends on the content and as you have alluded to its a lot in one lesson, I'd want to break it into sections if all the content is required in one course?
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Hey Heather - agree with Alison on timings, 30-40 minutes is fairly typical in The Academy, but where possible I'd always choose multiple shorter lessons that can be reorganised into different courses and Pathways (coming soon! 🎉) to suit different uses and audiences.
What prevents the learning from being chopped up into multiple, smaller Lessons? Is it a practical barrier, or is it more about the teams' differing perceptions of ‘a good length for eLearning’?
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Our longest elearning courses are 1hr but they are chunked into smaller lessons. I wouldn't be all that comfortable with lessons exceeding 20-30 minutes; much more and it feels like a slog regardless of the topic.
It does also depend on the content within the lesson. I've got a more tolerance for an elearning lesson which incorporates video and meaningful interactions than one that's predominantly read and click next. As a learner, I'm going to lose motivation beyond 30 minutes regardless.0
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