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Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning?
Emotions exist widely in the entire process of learning and affect students’ motivation as well as academic performance. In multimedia learning, academics usually focus on the impact of teachers’ emotions or the emotional design of multimedia learning materials on students’ emotions and learning res...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9030648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084434 |
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description | Emotions exist widely in the entire process of learning and affect students’ motivation as well as academic performance. In multimedia learning, academics usually focus on the impact of teachers’ emotions or the emotional design of multimedia learning materials on students’ emotions and learning results. Few studies have investigated how to enhance learning by regulating students’ pre-learning emotions. This study focused on whether playing funny videos before learning could promote students’ positive emotions to enhance their motivation, satisfaction, and learning outcomes. We randomly divided 81 elementary school students into two groups: experimental group and control group. While the experimental group watched funny video clips, the control group watched neutral video clips before starting the video learning. The experimental group had more positive pre-learning emotions than the control group. After the course, the emotion of the experimental group declined while that of the control group enhanced. However, positive pre-learning emotions still promoted students’ understanding and transfer of learning materials. Moreover, no significant differences were observed between the two groups in learning motivation, satisfaction, and retention tests. Furthermore, this paper analyzed the causes of the experimental results and discussed the insights for teaching. |
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spelling | pubmed-90306482022-04-23 Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? Wang, Mengke Chen, Zengzhao Int J Environ Res Public Health Article Emotions exist widely in the entire process of learning and affect students’ motivation as well as academic performance. In multimedia learning, academics usually focus on the impact of teachers’ emotions or the emotional design of multimedia learning materials on students’ emotions and learning results. Few studies have investigated how to enhance learning by regulating students’ pre-learning emotions. This study focused on whether playing funny videos before learning could promote students’ positive emotions to enhance their motivation, satisfaction, and learning outcomes. We randomly divided 81 elementary school students into two groups: experimental group and control group. While the experimental group watched funny video clips, the control group watched neutral video clips before starting the video learning. The experimental group had more positive pre-learning emotions than the control group. After the course, the emotion of the experimental group declined while that of the control group enhanced. However, positive pre-learning emotions still promoted students’ understanding and transfer of learning materials. Moreover, no significant differences were observed between the two groups in learning motivation, satisfaction, and retention tests. Furthermore, this paper analyzed the causes of the experimental results and discussed the insights for teaching. MDPI 2022-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC9030648/ /pubmed/35457302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084434 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Wang, Mengke Chen, Zengzhao Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title | Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title_full | Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title_fullStr | Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title_full_unstemmed | Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title_short | Laugh before You Study: Does Watching Funny Videos before Study Facilitate Learning? |
title_sort | laugh before you study: does watching funny videos before study facilitate learning? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9030648/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35457302 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19084434 |
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