How Learning-styles Influence Learning Experience with Lecture Video Played at Different Speeds

Abstract

The goal of this study was to clarify effects of students’ learning styles on their learning experience with lecture videos played at different playback speeds. In our two experiments, participants’ learning styles were categorized by Felder’s index of learning styles. In the first experiment, lecture videos were presented to a group of 20 students with moderate or low visual preferences (Intermediate group) and a group of 21 students with strong visual learning preferences (Visual group) at different playback speeds (12 kinds of speed: 0.25× speed to 3.0× speed by 0.25×). In the second experiment, 35 students of IG and 40 students of VG learned about the network infrastructure with lecture videos played at original speed, 1.5× speed, and 2.0× speed. The results from both experiments imply that VG prefer watching the video at the original playback speed, while IG preferred watching the video at high-speeds like speed of 1.5x. Consequently, the possibility that students’ learning experience could differ to their learning styles when they learn with hi-speed lecture videos was discussed.