I found this article on the OLDaily blog and thought that it was interesting (http://www.universityaffairs.ca/2008/11/03/how-technology-is-transforming-the-lecture.aspx). In this article, a professor at York University makes web videos as lectures; however, his students gave him feedback on the lectures and told him that they did not like them. So he started doing some more research and looked into things like the students’ attention span and what they liked. After his research he decided to break his lecture into parts and allow “funny” breaks in between.

I think this would work for a lot of online courses. Teachers can get feedback from students as to what they liked and didn’t like and teachers could adapt to what the students have suggested or make improvements based on their suggestions.