Abstract—This study addresses learners’ before-class lecture video viewing behavior from the perspectives of learner’s personal characteristics: learning motivation, computer self-efficacy, Internet access availability, and learning styles. This study involved eighty high school students. Results did not find significant correlation between students’ before-class video viewing behavior and learner characteristics such as learning motivation, computer self-efficacy, and Internet access availability. It was found that students with higher degree of learning motivation were more inclined to view the lecture video before class. Those students who viewed more lecture video before class also reported significantly higher level of Internet access availability and higher post-achievement. However, there were no significant differences in before-class lecture video viewing and post-achievement among the students with different learning styles.

Index Terms—Distance learning, learner characteristics, streaming video.

Chiung-Fang Chiu is with the Graduate Institute of Curriculum Instruction and Technology, National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan (e-mail: cfchiu@ncnu.edu.tw). Yu-Tze Lin is with the Graduate Institute of Information and Computer Education, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (e-mail: linyt@ntnu.edu.tw). Greg C Lee is the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan (e-mail: leeg@csie.ntnu.edu.tw).

Cite: Chiung-Fang Chiu, Yu-Tze Lin, and Greg C. Lee, "A Case Study on Lecture Video Viewing for Before-Class Learning," International Journal of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning vol. 2, no. 6, pp. 478-482, 2012.