Educational video games and simulations hold great potential as measurement tools to assess student levels of understanding, identify effective instructional techniques, and pinpoint moments of learning because they record all actions taken in the course of solving each problem rather than just the answers given. However, extracting meaningful information from the log data produced by education...

In this study, a comparison of static (illustration and text annotation) and dynamic (video with audio annotation) delivery of procedural instructions on a highly spatial task is made. Two groups completed three origami paper-folding tasks, after which they answered a preferences questionnaire and then were asked to re-do the first origami task from memory. The results indicated a general advan...

The objective of the project was to create 3D visualization of an extinct village and its evaluation using eye-tracking. As an area of interest, the extinct village of Čistá was selected. The village was located in Karlovy Vary Region in the Czech Republic and was destroyed in 1948. The village was destroyed to primarily to establish a military training area. Secondly, it was destroyed to creat...

This paper presents empirical evidence concerning the application of digital video technologies for creating design-based learning environments for middle school students. In three studies we show how the affordances and constraints of digital video technology can support for students their (a) cognitive (b) action related and (c) socio-cognitive learning processes in the domain of history. We ...

While there have been studies on faculty use of streaming video resources in academic libraries, none focused the specific needs ethnic faculty. Using a thematic analysis semi-structured interviews with 13 from two public university campuses, this study found that engagement is based upon pedagogical strategy responds to demands and goals curricula, while centering student by using free wheneve...

This paper examines some instructional practices concerning the non-optimal uses of video, films and other mass media in the K–12 classroom. Based on a six-year process of observing and interviewing teachers regularly in two school districts in Massachusetts, USA, this paper presents a typology of seven common patterns of non-optimal media use, instructional practices that diminish or weaken th...

Kurt Squire is a PhD candidate in Instructional Systems Technology at Indiana University, and is currently working as a research manager at MIT on the Microsoft-MIT funded Games-to-Teach Project. His research interests include the design of games and simulations, the use of games and simulations in formal learning environments, video game industry & culture, socio-cultural learning theory, perf...

We investigated the testing effect in Coursera video-based learning. One hundred and twenty-three participants either (a) studied an instructional video-recorded lecture four times, (b) studied the lecture three times and took one recall test, or (c) studied the lecture once and took three tests. They then took a final recall test, either immediately or a week later, through which their learnin...

Feature selection for video retrieval applications is impractical with existing techniques, because of their high time complexity and their failure on the relatively sparse training data that is available given video data size. In this paper we present a novel heuristic method for selecting image features for video, called the Complement Sort-Merge Tree (CSMT). It combines the virtues of a wrap...

The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate the video on demand learning system. This study integrated the thematic instructional strategy into interactive video-based instruction based on the cognitive theory of multimedia learning and investigated the participant’s reflection and learning performance through post-test, IMMS and the experimental teaching activities. Under the self-co...