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Jennifer Lau
Learning, Design + Technology
More than ever people are engaging in video-based learning, nearly all of which is done online, and thus we wanted to explore the question of whether the medium in which a learner views a procedural demonstration affects their ability to imitate it accurately. Because video is uniquely suited to visual procedural learning, we decided to specifically test the effects of video versus in-person demonstration. Having recently read about the importance of social engagement in learning, we also wanted to see if there was an effect when participants could see the demonstrator’s face in the video versus a video in which no face was present. Our hypothesis was that participants who viewed the live demonstration would be able to recreate the procedure with the greatest accuracy followed by participants who viewed videos in which they could see the demonstrator's face and then lastly by the participants who viewed videos in which they could not see the face. What we found was that participants who received the live demonstration did, in fact, perform twice as well as the ones who viewed videos, but there was no significant difference between the no face and face condition.