by David F. Carr, Information Week
The project-based approach taken by many Udacity courses is driven by interesting problems for students to solve, Evans said, something that’s often lacking in a traditional academic setting where you have more of a captive audience. He and the course designers from Udacity started with the understanding that they would need to work hard to keep students engaged, and they rarely present more than five minutes of video lecture before offering a quiz or programming exercise. Online video sites like YouTube indulge our short attention spans with limitless choices, until “anything more than a minute starts to seem like forever,” Evans said. Online courses exist in that same environment. “It’s a very different medium from sitting in a traditional lecture hall.”
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