Video seeking behavior of young adults for self directed learning

Abstract

The proliferation of Internet has made information more accessible to many people, including self-directed learners to support their learning needs. With technology and the Internet’s omnipresent, students today have grown up and immersed themselves in technologies for leisure and learning. These younger information seekers appear to be comfortable with finding information on the Internet. Videos have been used in numerous environment to support learning. Public online video repositories such as YouTube, Vimeo, and others serve as good resources for self-directed learning (SDL). This paper describes part of the research done on video seeking behavior of post-secondary students when performing an exploratory search to identify suitable videos for their learning. In video seeking, the participants in the study exhibited at least two levels of assessment to determine the video(s) that satisfy the search task. Both levels of assessment suggest that the video seekers looked for cues and video metadata that can acquaint them the video’s content with minimal effort.