What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning

Selina N. Emhardt; Halszka Jarodzka; Saskia Brand-Gruwel; Christian Drumm; Diederick C. Niehorster; Tamara van Gog

doi:10.1080/20445911.2022.2080831

What is my teacher talking about? Effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze and mouse cursor cues in video lectures on students’ learning

Selina N. Emhardt^*
, Halszka Jarodzka
, Saskia Brand-Gruwel
, Christian Drumm
, Diederick C. Niehorster
, Tamara van Gog

^*Corresponding author for this work

Open University of the Netherlands
Hogeschool Zuyd
Aachen University of Applied Sciences
Lund University

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Abstract

Eye movement modelling examples (EMME) are instructional videos that display a teacher’s eye movements as “gaze cursor” (e.g. a moving dot) superimposed on the learning task. This study investigated if previous findings on the beneficial effects of EMME would extend to online lecture videos and compared the effects of displaying the teacher’s gaze cursor with displaying the more traditional mouse cursor as a tool to guide learners’ attention. Novices (N = 124) studied a pre-recorded video lecture on how to model business processes in a 2 (mouse cursor absent/present) × 2 (gaze cursor absent/present) between-subjects design. Unexpectedly, we did not find significant effects of the presence of gaze or mouse cursors on mental effort and learning. However, participants who watched videos with the gaze cursor found it easier to follow the teacher. Overall, participants responded positively to the gaze cursor, especially when the mouse cursor was not displayed in the video.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	846-864
Number of pages	19
Journal	Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Volume	34
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2022.2080831
Publication status	Published - 3 Oct 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) [grant number NRO-PROO # 405-17-301].

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Funding

This work was supported by The Netherlands Initiative for Education Research (NRO) [grant number NRO-PROO # 405-17-301].

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eye movement modelling examples
Instructional design
video learning

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