How Long Should Your Online Course Video Lessons Be? Video Lecture | Online Course Creation: Build your Course from Scratch - Professional Skills

a question I hear a lot is how long
should my online course videos be or
your online course lessons if you're
creating lessons for your online course
you want to have a good idea as to what
your students can actually absorb enjoy
and learn from and the answer is
probably shorter than you think I
definitely see a lot of people putting
out 1/2 hour long 20 minute long 1 hour
long videos this is generally a lot
greater than our current attention span
for online videos the attention span for
online videos is shrinking and shrinking
now it's a little bit different
statistically in the context of an
online course where people have usually
put aside some time to go and learn as
opposed to a YouTube video or a
marketing video with your YouTube and
marketing videos people are getting down
to a minute or two of attention span or
even shorter in some cases with the
online courses you can usually do a two
to seven minute window try to usually
keep it around the 5 minute mark if you
have something that requires longer than
that to teach which I'm sure you do
it just means breaking up the content
into multiple pieces and it's easiest
you can shoot an hour-long video and
then in editing just cut that up into
five minute segments at natural
breakpoints but if you do a little bit
of planning ahead of time you can create
some natural pauses between mini topics
that make up part of a larger topic and
that will get you down to those two to
seven minute videos by doing videos that
are two to seven minutes in length you
can still stack them one after another
and make it very easy for someone to
flow through all of that content
back-to-back but it does give people
that momentary break where they're
they're able to blink and take a break
from watching and and and just that
moment where they blink and then click
to go to the next video or ideally if
you have a gamified online education
system like think if ik then we'll show
them a bit of progress indication give
them a little pat on the back and a
reward digitally of course to let them
know that they finished something in the
course and they're ready to move on to
the next lesson or the next video that
thing will dramatically increase your
engagement rates the retention of
student information and course
completion rates and if you're not
getting people to complete your course
they're not getting a lot of value out
of it they're not sharing it with their
friends and bringing more people to
check it out so if you're doing lessons
within your course please keep them
short you'll get much better feedback
from your students from it
if you already have long lessons you can
cut them up into smaller pieces but two
to seven minutes is what we find is kind
of that ideal length for online course
videos or lessons if you need to stretch
it again no rule is absolute it's just a
guideline for most of your content I
hope that helps and that you can
implement it in your next online course
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