Shaping learners' attention in Massive Open Online Courses

• Main Authors: Kshitij Sharma (Author), Daniela Caballero (Author), Himanshu Verma (Author), Patrick Jermann (Author), Pierre Dillenbourg (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: CRIFPE - Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la formation et la profession enseignante, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We present an eye-tracking study in the context of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) videos. We propose to use a pre-test as a way of priming students about the video content before they watch the video. In this study, we used two versions of the same pre-test: textual and schema based. The results...