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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Learning Declarative and Procedural Knowledge via Video Lectures: Cognitive Load and Learning Effectiveness

Jianzhong Hong; Zhongling Pi; Jiumin Yang

Innovations in Education and Teaching International Vol. 55, No. 1 (2018) pp. 74–81

Video lectures are being widely used in online and blended learning classes worldwide, and their learning effectiveness is becoming a focus of many educators and researchers. This study examined the cognitive load and learning effectiveness of video ...

Effects of the instructor's pointing gestures on learning performance in video lectures

Zhongling Pi; Jianzhong Hong; Jiumin Yang

British Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 48, No. 4 (June 2017) pp. 1020–1029

Recent research on video lectures has indicated that the instructor's pointing gestures facilitate learning performance. This study examined whether the instructor's pointing gestures were superior to nonhuman cues in enhancing video lectures...