The educational power of humor on student engagement in online learning environments

Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning

Table 2 Humor elements and usage purposes

	Attention	Recall	Feedback	Humor break
Where?	In the introduction of OLCs	Important and difficult lessons or subjects	Following the activity or the exam	Following cognitive fatigue
How?	Images, caricature etc.	Humorous text, video or image	Exaggeration	Narrative, images, humorous text, joke etc.
Who?	(Fredrickson & Branigan, 2005; Shatz & LoSchiavo, 2006)	(Garner, 2006; James, 2004; Lei et al., 2010)	(Berk, 2000)	(Garner, 2006; Kher, Molstad, & Donahue, 1999)