Open-ended student feedback highlighted relevance and conciseness as benefits of personalized AI videos, alongside concerns about unnaturalness, uncanny-valley discomfort, and trust¶
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q1 i? Students described personalized AI videos as engaging, relevant, direct, and concise, but also as monotone, robotic, unsettling, and sometimes untrustworthy. → Tomlinson 2026
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Tomlinson 2026¶
Tomlinson, B., Black, R.W., Patterson, D.J., van der Hoek, A., Ferguson, J. & Bietz, M.J. (2026). Students prefer personalized, AI-generated educational videos over non-personalized, human-recorded videos. Scientific Reports 16:21804. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-52798-9
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Illustrative analysis of two open-ended survey questions about benefits and drawbacks of the personalized AI videos; the authors state no formal qualitative coding was conducted. Students also "described the videos as monotone, robotic, or unsettling, with several explicitly invoking uncanny valley effects" and some questioned whether content was human-verified.
"Students also repeatedly highlighted clarity, consistency, and conciseness as strengths of the AI-generated videos."
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Related Claims¶
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- Students showed no statistically significant apprehension about trusting automated feedback validity, and favoured granular automated marginalia over generalised human feedback — related
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- Open-ended learner feedback revealed four themes: trust in AI scaffolding, feedback clarity, engagement, and task authenticity — related
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Open-ended student feedback highlighted relevance and conciseness as benefits of personalized AI videos, alongside concerns about unnaturalness, uncanny-valley discomfort, and trust |
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Open-ended student feedback highlighted relevance and conciseness as benefits of personalized AI videos, alongside concerns about unnaturalness, uncanny-valley discomfort, and trust |
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