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Teaching on Zoom In the Eyes of the Lecturer: An Eye Tracking Study Cover

Teaching on Zoom In the Eyes of the Lecturer: An Eye Tracking Study

Open Access
|Oct 2023

Abstract

The shift to “Zoom” online learning in higher education, has aroused questions regarding the professional vision of lecturers- which is the core of this study. Since teaching on “Zoom” is screen based, it was possible to use an eye-tracking device to study lecturers’ vision gazes during teaching. The study describes ten lecturers vision behaviours by fixations and lecturer’s personal perception of vision. Main results revealed that sidelong variability between lecturers’ eye gazes, lecturers mainly focused on their presentations. They felt high vision interaction with participated students yet, more than fixations revealed. These results and more discussed in the study, emphasis the importance of understanding lecturers’ professional vision on “Zoom”, for improving the quality of teaching on this rather new method of teaching.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/uproc.83 | Journal eISSN: 2631-5602
Language: English
Published on: Oct 27, 2023
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

© 2023 Hayley Weigelt, Oren Ben-Aharon, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.