Video lecture styles in MOOCS by Malaysian polytechnics

Abstract

As the utilisation of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) grows in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) discipline, TVET students are required to use video lectures uploaded on MOOCs frequently. However, video lectures come in various styles and it may affect students' academic performance and psychology. Acknowledging this issue, this study aims to investigate the styles of TVET video lectures included in MOOCs by Malaysian Polytechnics. The video lectures (N=90) were analysed using video lecture style taxonomy [12]. It was found that the TVET video lectures can be categorised into fifteen styles in which nine of the styles were not listed in the taxonomy. Hence, the findings of this study can benefit TVET students and instructors in utilising video lectures effectively for teaching and learning. Additionally, it can also help researchers in corpus selection to further the study of TVET video lectures.