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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
📣Dear Online Course Creators:
Take a moment to count how many assets you have in your course for students to download. There is such a thing as "course bloat". I just downloaded 243 assets (combination of Videos, Transcripts, audio files, & PDF eBooks) for a 4-wk course. 🤯
See? I'm not kidding. It...just...keeps...going....
In case you're wondering - why did I bother?

I never finished the course, so I'm going to work on it in Q1 of '22. Also because I make a habit of downloading course assets to a storage location where I control my access. In this case, @devontech + my Google Drive.
This could be solved super simply by the course creator designing an accessible PDF with a table of contents with all of the text content and optionally link to (secured) media content. I would have LOVED that in this case.

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