Paper Info
Title
Using Time-Anchored Peer Comments to Enhance Social Interaction in Online Educational Videos
Abstract
Online learning is increasingly prevalent as an option for self-learning and as a resource for instructional design. Prerecorded video is currently the main medium of online education content delivery and instruction; this affords asynchronicity and flexibility, and enables the dissemination of lecture content in a distributed and scalable manner. However, the same properties may impede learners' engagement due to the lack of social interaction and peer support. In this paper, we propose a time-anchored commenting interface to allow online learners who watch the same video clips to exchange comments on them. Comments left by previous learners at specific time points of a video are displayed to new learners when they watch the same video and reach those time points. We investigated how the display of time-anchored comments (dynamic or static) and type of comments (content-related or social-oriented) influenced users' perceived engagement, perceived social interactivity, and learning outcomes. Our results show that dynamically displaying time-anchored comments can indeed enhance learners' perceived social interactivity. Moreover, the content of comments would further affect learners' intention of commenting. Based on our findings, we make various recommendations for the improvement of social interaction and learning experience in online education.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1145/2702123.2702349
CHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
asynchronous communication.,synchronous communication,distance learning,online educational interface,e-learning,asynchronous communication
Peer support,Social relation,Educational technology,Interactivity,Asynchronous communication,World Wide Web,Content delivery,Computer science,Human–computer interaction,Multimedia,Instructional design,Scalability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
17
0.77
18
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yi-Chieh Lee1262.08
Wen-Chieh Lin247644.50
Fu-Yin Cherng3415.60
Hao-Chuan Wang429645.80
Ching-Ying Sung5223.19
Jung-Tai King6529.83