Revue internationale des technologies en pédagogie universitaire (Jan 2015)

Shaping learners’ attention in Massive Open Online Courses

  • Kshitij Sharma,
  • Daniela Caballero,
  • Himanshu Verma,
  • Patrick Jermann,
  • Pierre Dillenbourg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.18162/ritpu-2015-v12n12-06
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1-2
p. 52

Abstract

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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.