(via Is this thing on?) A couple of years ago Daniel Stanford wrote a piece in The Edvocate called “Seven Deadly Sins of Online Course Design” in which he covered some of the most poodagogical stuff possible. Today’s really stellar example hits Deadly Sin #4, Bad Narration. As Stanford points out, some instructors might believe that it is faster and more engaging to deliver a lecture through video rather than writing it out for students to read. While the research suggests that video lectures are beneficial in online learning, it most certainly isn’t when the narrator is:
A) Faceless, never to be seen B) Speaking too quickly to be understood C) Trying to explain PowerPoint slides with text that is too long and too blurry D) Glug, glug, glug E) ALL OF THE ABOVE













