Evaluation method of e-learning materials by α-wave and β-wave of EEG

Abstract

In e-Learning study, the materials are the only environment. Therefore, the influence which these have on a students' emotion has big influence on progress of study. The purpose of this study, from a standpoint of making easyto-follow e-Learning materials, is to construct the foundation for a methodology to evaluate the materials from emotional aspect. At first we re-corded the basic EEG during mental calculation. Second, we tested two different levels of materials which had 3 important learning points. We recorded subjects' EEG, then analyzed and compared with the basic EEGs. The result suggested us that at the learning point, where the a-wave power was greater than the basic one and the β-wave was less than it, the content was not able to understand. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.