Share Paper: On Using Interactivity to Monitor the Attendance of Students at Learning-Videos

  1. Josef Wachtler, Educational Technology - Graz University of Technology, Austria
  2. Martin Ebner, Educational Technology - Graz University of Technology, Austria

Abstract: Many studies are claiming that compulsory attendance has its benefits for students because it is positively influencing their performance in consequence. This means that fully attending students are receiving a better grade than those who skip parts of the course. Whereas there are existing technologies to monitor the attendance of students in standard classroom situations the possibilities to provide such functionalities at online videos are limited. Because of that this work introduces an approach to assess the performance of students at videos. For that a web-platform which offers a detailed recording of the watched parts of videos is presented. The ...