Improving Learning by Non-Interactive Teaching as a Generative Learning Activity by Masking an Audience's Face

• In Event: If You Build It: Investigating Knowledge Construction and Generative Learning Strategies

Abstract

Learning by non-interactive teaching refers to students are asked to teach what they are learning to others without any response from them. In this study, college students studied a multimedia lesson and then explained it to a live online audience with an exposed face on the screen (seen-face-online condition), to a live online audience with no exposed face on the screen (unseen-face-online condition), or to an imaginary audience by making a lecture video (unseen-face-video condition). Students in the unseen-face-online and the unseen-face-video conditions performed better on a transfer test than those in the seen-face-online condition because the former minimized the distraction caused by the human face while freeing up capacity to increase active retrieval and generative processing.

Authors

• Meixia Cheng, Central China Normal University

• Fuxing Wang, Central China Normal University