Nottingham Forest and the attention span of a jellyfish

Unfair on jellyfish I hear you cry!!

But much on-line learning material designed for the modern generation of student suggests that 7 minutes is the optimum time for on-line video.  Plenty of academics fear that the lecture (typically 1 or 2 hours) is dead (see Turner, 2015 for example).  Podcasts, videos of lectures etc. are becoming more accessible for teachers and students alike but are we doing our students justice?

Many young people will maintain rapt attention to a 90 minute football match (even Nottingham Forest), just as long to a F1 race, longer to the many variants of cricket...the list of examples is long.

So what has football got that lectures haven't?  For that matter what have movies or plays, concerts and recitals have that lectures do not.

You are too polite to say this but.....they aren't BORING.

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