Analysis of video views in online courses

Nowadays, in our fast-paced world there are countless MOOC courses in the Internet with various topics that have been designed to broaden our knowledge. One of the most powerful tools for effective learning are online videos. Many case studies have been carried out in order to specify the qualities of a good educational video. Philip J. Guo, Juho Kim and Rob Rubin published an article (How Video Production Affects Student Engagement - An Empirical Study of MOOC Videos) on their experience during edX courses. They analyzed the optimal length of a video and determined which videos were preferred by the students. Our research group from the University of Szeged has developed a logging system which records student activities in online courses to analyze learning styles and behaviour when watching a video. In our research, we did a literature review about on-line videos and introduced the system to log student activities, focusing on video views.