Is self-explanation better than explaining to a fictitious student when learning from video lectures?

• Main Authors: Pi, Zhongling, Zhang, Yi, Shi, Dongyuan, Guo, Xin, Yang, Jiumin
• Other Authors: School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Education; Generative Learning Strategy; Instructional Explanations
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163557
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Generating written explanations is a popular learning strategy in an online learning environment. Students can explain to themselves (ie, self-explanations) or a peer-student (ie, instructional explanations). However, for improving learning from video lectures, it is unclear whether writing self-exp...