Shaping learners’ attention in Massive Open Online Courses
We present an eye-tracking study in the context of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) videos. We propose to use a pre-test as a way of priming students about the video content before they watch the video. In this study, we used two versions of the same pre-test: textual and schema based. The results...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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CRIFPE - Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la formation et la profession enseignante
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Revue internationale des technologies en pédagogie universitaire |
| Online Access: | http://www.ritpu.org/IMG/pdf/RITPU_v12_n01-02_52 |
| Summary: | We present an eye-tracking study in the context of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) videos. We propose to use a pre-test as a way of priming students about the video content before they watch the video. In this study, we used two versions of the same pre-test: textual and schema based. The results show that priming has an effect on the learning gain as well as the gaze patterns of students as they watch the videos; the type of priming has an effect on whether students spend more time looking at textual or schema video elements. |
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| ISSN: | 1708-7570 |