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The impact of short videos on student performance in an online-flipped college engineering course

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Zhu, Jia, Yuan, Hang, Zhang, Quan, Huang, Po-Hsun, Wang, Yongjie, Duan, Sixuan, Lei, Ming, Lim, Eng Gee +1 more·2022·Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

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The 2020 COVID-19 pandemic has greatly accelerated the adoption of online learning and teaching in many colleges and universities. Video, as a key integral part of online education, largely influences student learning experiences. Though many guidelines on designing educational videos have been reported, the quantitative data showing the impacts of video length on students’ academic performance in a credit-bearing course is limited, particularly for an online-flipped college engineering course. The forced pandemic lockdown enables a suitable environment to address this research gap. In this paper, we present the first step to examine the impact of short videos on students’ academic performance in such circumstances. Our results indicate that short videos can greatly improve student engagement by 24.7% in terms of video viewing time, and the final exam score by 9.0%, both compared to the long-video group. The quantitative Likert questionnaire also indicates students’ preference for short videos over long videos. We believe this study has important implications for course design for future online-flipped engineering courses.

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Authors
Zhu, J., Yuan, H., Zhang, Q., Huang, P.-H., Wang, Y., Duan, S., Lei, M., Lim, E. G., & Song, P.
Affiliations
  • University of Liverpool (GB)
  • Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (CN)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Harbin Institute of Technology (CN)
  • Suzhou City University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Wang, Yongjie
  • Song, Pengfei
Venue
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Published
2022-09-22
Volume
9
Issue
1
Pages
327-327
ISSN
  • 2055-1045 (ISSN-L)
  • 2662-9992
OpenAlex
W4296654913
Cited by
72
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 15 · 2025: 25 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 2
FWCI
30.75
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Government of Jiangsu Province
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Education › Innovations in Educational Methods
  • Social Sciences › Education › Innovative Teaching Methods
  • Social Sciences › Education › Online and Blended Learning
Keywords
short-form video, video length, online learning, flipped classroom, engineering education, student performance, student engagement, COVID-19 pandemic, course design, student preferences

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