Curriculum request: Add estimated length of lesson

[chennesy]

How could the content be improved?

The @LibraryCarpentry/curriculum-advisors recently updated the LC lessons page to add a column with an estimated length for each lesson that workshop organizers can use to help them plan workshops. We used estimated times from the YAML teaching and exercises metadata fields from your lesson to come up with the initial estimated length. Two requests:

1. Please reply here if you want to suggest a different estimated length for the lessons page and I will update it there.
2. If our estimate was incorrect, it would be great if you can update the episode YAML metadata to reflect more accurate times.

If the estimated time looks good to you, feel free to close the issue.

[jas58]

I would keep the upper end of the limits and the caveat about variability. The lower end is based more on rushing highly conceptual content because there are fewer hands on elements, which must be covered in depth in later sections if skipped or barely mentioned. The 2-4 hour range also makes it awkward to schedule around meals or multiple days: when to sequence is often based on instructor availability rather than content progression. Have I taught it faster? yes, under constraints: like putting tidy & git in the same 4 hour day because the website shows 2 hours each. And then learning 1 of the 4 hours was lunch. Thanks for letting me add these thoughts to the document history, even if closed as resolved. I appreciate the space to advocate for slowing down and making space for silent thought and brave sharing of "I don't understand yet, can we walk through it again?"

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On Mon, Oct 7, 2024, 10:06 AM Cody Hennesy ***@***.***> wrote: How could the content be improved? The @LibraryCarpentry/curriculum-advisors <https://github.com/orgs/LibraryCarpentry/teams/curriculum-advisors> recently updated the LC lessons page <https://librarycarpentry.org/lessons/> to add a column with an estimated length for each lesson that workshop organizers can use to help them plan workshops. We used estimated times from the YAML teaching and exercises metadata fields <https://carpentries.github.io/sandpaper-docs/episodes.html#yaml-metadata>from your lesson to come up with the initial estimated length. Two requests: 1. Please reply here if you want to suggest a different estimated length for the lessons page and I will update it there. 2. If our estimate was incorrect, it would be great if you can update the episode YAML metadata to reflect more accurate times. If the estimated time looks good to you, feel free to close the issue. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#353>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AMT5MX5DWI6VR2SLWILGR23Z2KPPNAVCNFSM6AAAAABPQE3DSKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGU3TANZSG42TKNQ> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>