Abstract
The scope of this research is to examine whether facial expression of the students is a tool for the lecturer to interpret comprehension level of students in virtual classroom and also to identify the impact of facial expressions during lecture and the level of comprehension shown by these expressions. Our goal is to identify physical behaviours of the face that are linked to emotional states, and then to identify how these emotional states are linked to student’s comprehension. In this work, the effectiveness of a student’s facial expressions in non-verbal communication in a virtual pedagogical environment was investigated first. Next, the specific elements of learner’s behaviour for the different emotional states and the relevant facial expressions signaled by the action units were interpreted. Finally, it focused on finding the impact of the relevant facial expression on the student’s comprehension. Experimentation was done through survey, which involves quantitative observations of the lecturers in the classroom in which the behaviours of students were recorded and statistically analyzed. The result shows that facial expression is the most frequently used nonverbal communication mode by the students in the virtual classroom and facial expressions of the students are significantly correlated to their emotions which helps to recognize their comprehension towards the lecture.
Highlights
Today’s learning community focus on the vision of faculty and students working collaboratively towards deep, meaningful, high quality learning
The classroom communication in virtual classroom is analogous to the communication in real classroom
This paper statistically proved that facial expressions of the students are the most used nonverbal communication mode in the classroom and student’s expressions are significantly correlated to their emotions which can help to recognize their comprehension towards the lecture
Summary
Today’s learning community focus on the vision of faculty and students working collaboratively towards deep, meaningful, high quality learning. The achievements of digital communication lead learning communities into a new dimension. By means of communication technologies using different types of learning tools, spaces and forms of interaction virtual learning communities are emerging for many universities and colleges. Distance education enables many learners the opportunity to experience virtual learning environments. As the World Wide Web becomes an increasingly more popular medium for instructional delivery of distance education, the vision of faculty and students working collaboratively in a virtual learning community is becoming a reality. The explosion of the knowledge age has changed the context of what is learnt and
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