| Having taken a number of MOOCs, I would say, for the videos: - the speaker must be standing - the tone should be light, not necessarily funny, but definitely not always the same - there should be illustrations - anecdotes, personal notes, interviews: maybe not at every video but at least one per chapter. - videos should last less than 15min. The talk must not aim to be exhaustive. Students will master the material through provided readings, exercises or quizzes. Some may only watch the videos, others will do the full course. You will probably not have the time to prepare quality videos before the COVID-19 outbreak, so you may limit yourself to an introductory video for every chapter. You may also provide the solution for a couple of exercises in a video on the model of Kahn academy. You should watch the making-of at the end of "Mindshift" on Coursera, by Barbara Oakley. Note that "Introduction to logic" on Coursera has no videos but provides great tools and both funny and serious exercises. Bad videos may spoil the course by making your students bored before they even start learning. So insist on quality, not quantity. |