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I too can read faster than most people can talk, but I have the opposite view to you. If it is a technical subject and the lecturer is good then I get far more
by SeanDav 13y ago
I too can read faster than most people can talk, but I have the opposite view to you. If it is a technical subject and the lecturer is good then I get far more from a lecture than a book, in the same amount of time.
Kahn lectures are an example and there are many, many other online lectures that I would rather watch than read a book about the subject and I love reading books :)
Note that this is not an either-or. I will watch the lecture and still read the book as this is more efficient method for me.
1. Watch lectures
2. Browse book.
3. Focus in on areas of book I find interesting or relevant.
4. Do examples.
- hmsimha 13y agoThe only value lectures have for me that a textbook doesn't, is being able to ask the professor questions when I can't follow something (in a live lecture). I typically get way more out of a well-written textbook than a well-constructed video lecture. That being said, if the MOOCs would integrate a feature into their video players to emulate 'raising your hand' (for example if you have a question at a certain point, you can click a button and other questions that have been asked and answered at that or nearby points would appear, with stackoverflow-like voting on questions and answers, and the ability to chain your question to that point in the video if it wasn't already answered) it would make their video lectures even MORE useful than traditional classroom lectures and perhaps on par with textbooks.