Out of interest and completely just for fun, I created the videos for a mini course ( it was never published here or anywhere, but I wanted to play).
For each video, I introduced the learning points in own voice. The video lecture itself, used a realistic voice from elenvenlabs. It sounded perfect! then I summarised at the end in my own voice. The really interesting part was that for each subsequent video lesson, I chose a different VO from elevenlabs and alternated between male and female VO's. In total I had used four different VO's, plus me.
I then shared my series of videos in their learning sequence, with some friends and they all agreed it kept their interest and retention better.
It was a small personal experiment but gave me a lot to think about.
For today's online students, so many are hooked on the quick TikTok culture of videos and some just like to read the subtitles only, or listen to audio in the car on the way to work. Keeping learners engaged is changing and experimenting was fun, but also informative.
It's just food for thought and wouldn't work for many types of courses, but it was interesting to do.
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