Pushing the button: Why do learners pause online videos?

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Autoren

  • Martin Merkt
  • Anett Hoppe
  • Gerrit Bruns
  • Ralph Ewerth
  • Markus Huff

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Externe Organisationen

  • Deutsches Institut für Erwachsenenbildung (DIE) Leibniz-Zentrum für Lebenslanges Lernen e.V.
  • Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
  • Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM)
  • Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer104355
FachzeitschriftComput. Educ.
Jahrgang176
Frühes Online-Datum20 Okt. 2021
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Jan. 2022

Abstract

With the recent surge in digitalization across all levels of education, online video platforms gained educational relevance. Therefore, optimizing such platforms in line with learners’ actual needs should be considered a priority for scientists and educators alike. In this project, we triangulate logfiles of a large German online video platform for educational videos with behavioral data from a laboratory study and the objective characteristics of the selected videos. We aim to understand the potential motives for why participants pause educational videos while watching such videos online. Our analyses revealed that perceived difficulties in comprehension and meaningful structural breakpoints in the videos were associated with increased pausing behavior. In contrast, pausing behavior was not associated with the videos’ formal structural features highlighted in the video platform. Implications of these findings and the potentials of our methodological approach for theory and practice are discussed.

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Pushing the button: Why do learners pause online videos? / Merkt, Martin; Hoppe, Anett; Bruns, Gerrit et al.
in: Comput. Educ., Jahrgang 176, 104355, 01.2022.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelForschungPeer-Review

Merkt, M, Hoppe, A, Bruns, G, Ewerth, R & Huff, M 2022, 'Pushing the button: Why do learners pause online videos?', Comput. Educ., Jg. 176, 104355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104355
Merkt, M., Hoppe, A., Bruns, G., Ewerth, R., & Huff, M. (2022). Pushing the button: Why do learners pause online videos? Comput. Educ., 176, Artikel 104355. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104355
Merkt M, Hoppe A, Bruns G, Ewerth R, Huff M. Pushing the button: Why do learners pause online videos? Comput. Educ. 2022 Jan;176:104355. Epub 2021 Okt 20. doi: 10.1016/j.compedu.2021.104355
Merkt, Martin ; Hoppe, Anett ; Bruns, Gerrit et al. / Pushing the button : Why do learners pause online videos?. in: Comput. Educ. 2022 ; Jahrgang 176.
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