I have a learning style question. A friend of mine (Paul) asked a similar question a few weeks ago about learning new concepts from video material.

Consider the video linked below. It is a classroom video from a Cornell class on non-linear dynamics. This particular video isn’t very technical, and the math used is light high school calculus level. The presentation is a standard college lecture style. The concepts in this video would probably only span 4-5 pages in a written text book.

The question: How is this kind of presentation as a learning tool for you? Could you follow along the with the concepts? Do you pause and think, rewind and play again, take notes? Scream out answers to the questions?

This video is 1h 13 mins long, so I suspect most of you are not going to watch the entire thing. I watched all of these at 1.5x speed since the content rate isn’t super high.

My opinion – and the reason for the question – I like this style, and I can really absorb concepts delivered this way. Am I in the minority or majority?

Also, I must have stacked slidable whiteboards in the new house. Must.