Enhancing Social Learning in Active Video Watching

Abstract

To learn effectively by watching videos, learners need to engage actively with video content. Writing comments on videos (also known as video annotation) is a common way of engagement in Active Video Watching (AVW). Reviewing comments on videos written by peers, as a form of social learning, has also been shown to increase learning. In this paper, we extended social learning in AVW by enabling learners to respond to comments written by their peers (rather than just reviewing peer comments) and replacing a categorical comment rating design with a numerable binary one. We investigated the impact of using such a form of comment reviewing on learning, engagement, and students' perceptions. The findings show that our intervention results in increased learning, engagement and student satisfaction compared to the situation when students could not respond to comments.