Research Featured in Adelaide University News

My recent work on mind wandering in video-based learning has been featured in Adelaide University News.

Over two weeks, 53 students across eight courses watched 26 short instructional videos and reported every time their thoughts drifted off task: 317 thought reports in total. Two findings stand out. Students with stronger planning and time management skills and greater effort regulation reported less mind wandering. And rewinding a video after catching yourself drifting is rare: only 15 thought reports, by 10 of 53 participants, led to a rewind. That said, noticing mind wandering is not the same as responding to it. Whether learners need to be taught how to react when they catch themselves drifting, or whether this develops naturally as part of self-regulated learning, remains an open question.