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-- Namatame, & Kitajima (2011)Namatame, M., & Kitajima, M. (2011). Designing Course Material Using Interactive Authoring Software Application for Hard-of-Hearing Students. Proceedings of the Global Conference on Learning and Technology, 1402-1408.
Designing Course Material Using Interactive Authoring Software Application for Hard-of-Hearing StudentsThis paper reports on an eye-tracking study that focuses on the usage of interactive course material for designing e-learning course material that imposes the least cognitive burden on learners. We developed experimental course material using interactive authoring software for our students who have hearing difficulties. The material consists of an instruction pane displaying balloon instructions and demonstrations, and a workspace pane where the learners replicate the demonstrated operations. The students were supposed to comprehend the instructions and map their understanding of the operations in the workspace. We recorded the eye movements of 20 hard-of-hearing students and 20 normal-hearing students while they were using the experimental course material, and investigated their use of the balloon instructions. We found that the hard-of-hearing students had difficulty using the e-learning system, probably due to their cognitive characteristics (e.g., difficulty processing the textual information used in the balloon instructions). We proposed an improved design of the e-learning course material that would be useful for hard-of-hearing students.
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