Instructors’ pointing gestures improve learning regardless of their use of directed gaze in video lectures

Zhongling Pi; Yi Zhang; Fangfang Zhu; Ke Xu; Jiumin Yang; Weiping Hu

Computers & Education Vol. 128, No. 1 (January 2019) pp. 345–352

Empirical research to date has not distinguished the effects of the instructor's pointing gestures from directed gaze in video lectures. This study tested the hypothesis that the pointing gesture is superior to directed gaze in enhancing video...

Language: English