The e-learning community has been producing and using video content for a
long time, and in the last years, the advent of MOOCs greatly relied on video
recordings of teacher courses. Video annotations are information pieces that
can be anchored in the temporality of the video so as to sustain various
processes ranging from active reading to rich media editing. In this position
paper we study how video annotations can be used in an e-learning context -
especially MOOCs - from the triple point of view of pedagogical processes,
current technical platforms functionalities, and current challenges. Our
analysis is that there is still plenty of room for leveraging video annotations
in MOOCs beyond simple active reading, namely live annotation, performance
annotation and annotation for assignment; and that new developments are needed
to accompany this evolution.Comment: 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU),
Barcelone : Spain (2014
