Seoyoung Kim
Donghoon Shin
ABSTRACT
Online videos are a promising medium for older adults to learn. Yet, few studies have investigated what, how, and why they learn through online videos. In this study, we investigated older adults’ motivation, watching patterns, and difficulties in using online videos for learning by (1) running interviews with 13 older adults and (2) analyzing large-scale video event logs (N=41.8M) from a Korean Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) platform. Our results show that older adults (1) are motivated to learn practical topics, leading to less consumption of STEM domains than non-older adults, (2) watch videos with less interaction and watch a larger portion of a single video compared to non-older adults, and (3) face various difficulties (e.g., inconvenience arisen due to their unfamiliarity with technologies) that limit their learning through online videos. Based on the findings, we propose design guidelines for online videos and platforms targeted to support older adults’ learning.
Footnotes
1 These ages are indicated in Korean age. Korean age considers the birth year as year 1, which is equivalent to calculating the age as currentyear − birthyear + 1.
Footnote2 We define the coverage of a video as the percentage of a video clip seen by the viewer.
Footnote3 A Korean state-led MOOC platform, which launched in 2015 with 3.6M users by the end of 2018. It offered 520 courses open for enrollment as of January 2019, spanning various subject domains (e.g., humanities, social science, engineering, natural science) offered by 92 different universities.
Footnote4 Domain: Engineering, Level: Intensive major
Footnote5 Domain: Humanities, Level: Basic major
Footnote6 Domain: Medical sciences & Pharmacy, Level: Elective
Footnote7 Domain: Engineering, Level: Elective, A course that covers how to pick a good home, how to interior the house, how to invest using real estate, and knowledge for house taxation
Footnote8 Domain: Social science, Level: Elective
Footnote9 In this paper, we define ‘seek backward’ as jumping to a prior part of the video and ’seek forward’ as jumping to a later part of the video
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