Title: Audio-visual resources and learning improvement: an experimental analysis

Authors: Marta Magadán-Díaz; Jesús I. Rivas-García

Addresses: Faculty of Business and Communication, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Av. de la Paz, 137, 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain ' Faculty of Business and Communication, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Av. de la Paz, 137, 26006 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain

Abstract: The general objective of this research is to analyse the students' learning performance on the use of audio-visual resources in the subject of didactics of the business and its environment, taught in master's degree in Teacher Training of High School, Vocational Training and Language Teaching (specialty in Economics, Business, and Commerce) at the University of Nebrija. This study applied the experimental method from two randomly generated samples of the two groups (virtual classrooms) into which the enrolled students were administratively divided. The results obtained by the experiment point to a significant improvement in the students' learning performance, and their perception about the use of this didactic tool turned out to be very positive.

Keywords: audio-visual resources; digital teaching resources; videos in class; audio-visual didactics; multimedia teaching; learning; learning improvement; virtual classrooms; experimental method; experimental analysis.

DOI: 10.1504/IJLT.2023.131312

International Journal of Learning Technology, 2023 Vol.18 No.1, pp.79 - 93

Received: 11 Dec 2021
Received in revised form: 18 Mar 2022
Accepted: 22 Jul 2022
Published online: 06 Jun 2023 *