Comments on: High-Speed Video Lectures

By: Farooq

Farooq — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:03:52 +0000

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By: toom

toom — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:32:37 +0000

At my university lectures are recorded. I like watching them at 1.5 or 2x speed because you can go through material faster (when cramming) or for reviewing familiar material (like a lazy-man’s version of skim-reading notes).

I find it also keeps you awake because its harder to keep up with someone talking about transmembrane proteins at twice the speed, and my theory is that it speeds up your brain, because when you go back to normal speed it feels like the lecturer is speaking in slow motion.

By: fast-forward. « info-mational

fast-forward. « info-mational — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:32:42 +0000

[...] calculus lectures between 1.6 and 2 times faster than they were recorded,” he wrote on his blog, Sharing Nicely, summing up comments he had heard at the recent Open Education Conference in Utah. Someone from a [...]

By: Students control speed of e-lectures | New media, new society

Students control speed of e-lectures | New media, new society — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:58:50 +0000

By: Smile, Philipp, You’re in The Chronicle at OCW Blog

Smile, Philipp, You’re in The Chronicle at OCW Blog — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:01:18 +0000

[...] Board Member Philipp Schmidt appears in yesterday’s Wired Campus column, regarding his double-speed lecture observation: The latest academic to note the trend is Jan Philipp Schmidt, manager of the Free Courseware [...]

By: Philipp Schmidt

Philipp Schmidt — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:55:22 +0000

My problem with high-speed audio is that there is very little structure to hold on to and especially if speakers make long(ish) arguments, it’s easy to get lost if you don’t listen to the whole train of thought in one go. What would be great is an outline of the audio with short abstracts of the different sections, like a table of content, that let’s you skip to the part you are interested in, or back to the part you missed.

I hope any open source software developers are reading this (very slowly, not just skimming!) and feel inspired to work on something like this.

By: Stian Haklev

Stian Haklev — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:51:16 +0000

This makes perfect sense to me. Voice is a very low-bandwidth medium, and I often find listening to long presentations quite tedious. _Especially_ if I probably know part of the material already (like listening to conference proceedings on topics I am familiar with). Here, scanning a text and then slowing down when I hit something interesting would be far more efficient. I haven’t actually tried speeding up a video, but I could see it working quite well – especially if you had a nice interface, and were able to easily slow it down to normal speed, or even slower, to capture details (I often pause it to read off slides for example).

Sadly, this is almost impossible with all the streaming video out there.

By: Why Do Students Watch Lecture Video At Warp Speed? at OCW Blog

Why Do Students Watch Lecture Video At Warp Speed? at OCW Blog — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:08:37 +0000

[...] Schmidt discusses one of the takeaways from Logan that I found interesting as well — students love to watch video at increased speed when offered the option, e.g. watch an hour lecture in 45 minutes by playing it at 150% speed: One [...]