The influences of a virtual instructor's voice and appearance on learning from video lectures.
Background: Video lectures which include the instructor's presence are becoming increasingly popular. Presenting a real human does, however, entail higher financial and time costs in making videos, and one innovative approach to reduce costs has been to generate a virtual speaking instructor. Object...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 38; no. 6; pp. 1703 - 1714 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Dec2022
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