Leveraging video annotations in video-based e-learning
This is an incremental analysis for the e-learning and MOOC communities, highlighting potential improvements in pedagogical processes.
This position paper analyzes how video annotations can be leveraged in e-learning contexts like MOOCs, identifying opportunities beyond simple active reading such as live annotation, performance annotation, and annotation for assignments, and concluding that new technical developments are needed to support this evolution.
The e-learning community has been producing and using video content for a long time, and in the last years, the advent of MOOCs greatly relied on video recordings of teacher courses. Video annotations are information pieces that can be anchored in the temporality of the video so as to sustain various processes ranging from active reading to rich media editing. In this position paper we study how video annotations can be used in an e-learning context - especially MOOCs - from the triple point of view of pedagogical processes, current technical platforms functionalities, and current challenges. Our analysis is that there is still plenty of room for leveraging video annotations in MOOCs beyond simple active reading, namely live annotation, performance annotation and annotation for assignment; and that new developments are needed to accompany this evolution.