How video production affects student engagement: An empirical study of MOOC videos

L@S 2014 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Learning at Scale

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 41-50

  Guo, Philip J ^a,b   Kim, Juho ^a   Rubin, Rob ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c EdX ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

MOOC; Online education; Video engagement

Indexed keywords

E-LEARNING; TEACHING; VIDEO RECORDING;

CLASSROOM LECTURE; EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; MOOC; ON-LINE EDUCATION; STUDENT ENGAGEMENT; VIDEO ENGAGEMENT; VIDEO PRODUCTION;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84899684523     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2556325.2566239     Document Type: Conference Paper

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