“I'm a Visual Learner so I like this”: Investigating Student and Faculty Tutorial Preferences

Video Tutorials in Teacher Education: Benefits, Difficulties, and Key Knowledge and Skills

“…These learning tools are becoming increasingly popular and are facilitating the way people learn by offering the possibility to access content anytime and anywhere. The literature reporting evidence on the use of VoD emphasises the advantages they offer, mainly pointing to the possibility of having a considerable amount of multimedia information available for teachers in order to enhance training paths and the educational process [14][15][16][17][18][19]. The main objective of video tutorials is to create educational content to train children, young people, and adults.…”

“…One of the main conclusions drawn from the analysis was the student's ability to pause and return to the selected video, which is of particular use in being able to understand the theoretical content communicated in the video with enough time, and, consequently, having a positive impact on their academic performance. The possibility of pausing and/or moving forward will "depend on how lost they were, or on how much they needed help with a certain subject" (p.6) [14], and this has been previously identified as a characteristic that contributes to learning success [15], mainly in those students with low academic performance [31], leading to more autonomous learning and promoting a greater interest of the students in the participation of this type of learning [16]. Nevertheless, as stated by Noetel [17], it is necessary to analyse and reflect on whether the participants always managed their own cognitive load (pauses and rewinding the tutorial videos) since "segmentation reduces learners' cognitive load by inserting system-controlled pauses into instructional animations and video" (p.318) [18].…”

“…Another benefit highlighted by the respondents touched on visual learning through diagrams, graphics, text, or audio, which can be an effective and enjoyable way not only to learn the content of the video tutorials, but also to transfer such content via the internet. For "visual learners" [14], video tutorials allow authentic demonstrations of skills with real people through the eye of the performer [18]. That is, video tutorials offer something similar to the experiences of virtual reality [19].…”