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Anyone else have to watch recorded lectures at 2-3x speed? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 months ago by jabathekek@sopuli.xyz to c/academia@mander.xyz

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Currently studying for an exam tomorrow, and I now realize why I'm always so sleepy in class: the prof. speaks sooo sloowllyy with pauses - in-between - most words. I can't keep focused because of that; thankfully, he has narrated powerpoints that I can download and watch... at 3x normal speed. Which is nice because a 37 minute video is now 12 minutes, but goddamn it makes classes so rough.

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[–] lqdrchrd@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wanted to chime in since I don’t see anyone here with the opposite opinion. When I did my degree I was always very grateful for the lecturers who would go slower and allow time for you to finish writing notes and really let the material sink in. I think the professor stopping is, at least some of the time, for your own benefit and not theirs, allowing you time to write detailed enough notes. I couldn’t have taken enough notes for an hour class in 20 minutes and also have been able to understand what I was writing.

[–] jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

That's likely, especially since he's been teaching the course for 15 years; however, I can't take notes that quickly. When I do try, they almost always end up incomplete because they start talking again before I can get everything down. Just my sleep deprivation damaged brain slowing down I guess (which I think might also be a reason a lot of lecturers have a slow speech pattern).

I do still take some notes, particularly things that I think are important that might not be on the slides.