A good idea, and one we can ask our all-volunteer teaching staff to implement.Vukae Dhoul wrote:I have a suggestion which I have been pondering for some time. Simply put: short classes. At the moment most classes appear to range between 90 minutes and 2 hours, and go into a topic in great depth. Don't get me wrong, this is awesome: they contain a huge amount of information. However, I wonder if there isn't also a place for classes of say, 20 minutes with a 10 minute Q&A.
These would be a much lighter time commitment for both students and instructors (and so might attract more of both). They would act as primers (and adverts) for longer, more detailed classes, or overviews for people wanting a basic appreciation of a topic.
One could imagine these might either be high level overviews of topics (e.g., "What is Sov Null?") which provide a flavour of a topic without any of the nitty-gritty detail, or more detailed classes on much more specific topics (for example, "Jump Clones", "T1 Caldari cruisers for PVP" or "Hybrid weapons systems").
I don't see these replacing the current offerings, but providing a supplement to them.
Meanwhile, here are some suggestions for shorter format content:
- Check out Seamus Donohue's excellent series of videos on a wide variety of EVE Online topics: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCghrb5gQXsVXzECjSs0gnKA
- Attend Seamus' weekly Q&A on EVE mechanics - it runs every Sunday at 03:00 EVE time - any and all questions welcome.
- Hang out in the Public Lounge on Mumble and ask questions there - someone will have an informed opinion almost all the time there.
- Post questions in the specific Q&A forums
Thanks for the suggestion - we'll see if we can get our teaching staff to do it.