Learning Alone yet Together: An Exploratory Study of the Interaction through Online Danmaku Videos

摘要

Due to technological innovations, people’s learning channel has greatly been diversified and along with the rapidly-developing Internet, an emergent commenting and communicating system in the video, the danmaku which enables time-sync comments in the video timeline was introduced from animation industry to online MOOCs learning. With its interactive features, the danmaku has numerous potential of enhancing online learning interaction and even learning outcomes. This paper implemented quantitative analysis involving 26,769 danmaku comments generated in video lessons in math from one of China’s most popular danmaku video website in order to explore the interaction while learning. Results of the analysis suggested that learners’ use of danmaku facilitated and promoted the interaction between the learners. Furthermore, learners engaged themselves in affective connections with the teacher through commenting by using danmaku.