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Tim Kühl; Felicia Teske; Martin Merkt; Christina Sondermann – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2025
The empirical evidence concerning the question whether an instructor should be presented on online lecture slides is equivocal and two lines of theoretical reasoning exist. On the one hand, the instructor may distract from the content, thereby hampering learning; on the other hand, the instructor may function as a social cue that triggers a more…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Visual Aids, Online Courses, Attention Control
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Lawson, Alyssa P.; Mayer, Richard E.; Adamo-Villani, Nicoletta; Benes, Bedrich; Lei, Xingyu; Cheng, Justin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2021
The positivity principle states that people learn better from instructors who display positive emotions rather than negative emotions. In two experiments, students viewed a short video lecture on a statistics topic in which an instructor stood next to a series of slides as she lectured and then they took either an immediate test (Experiment 1) or…
Descriptors: Positive Attitudes, Video Technology, Lecture Method, Statistics Education
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Chen, Hung-Tao M.; Thomas, Megan – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2020
Lecture videos are an integral part of distance education. Much has been done to investigate the effects of lecture video styles, but many of the studies have methodological issues and confounding variables. The current study focused on the amount of motion in two types of lecture videos (hand-drawn and narration-over-PowerPoint) and investigated…
Descriptors: Lecture Method, Video Technology, Learner Engagement, Distance Education