The instructor's gaze guidance in video lectures improves learning

Hongyan Wang; Zhongling Pi; Weiping Hu

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 35, No. 1 (February 2019) pp. 42–50

Instructor behaviour is known to affect learning performance, but it is unclear which specific instructor behaviours can optimize learning. We used eye‐tracking technology and questionnaires to test whether the instructor's gaze guidance affected...

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...

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