Abstract:

Over the past decade, rapid technological advancements and budget constraints have increased the demand for online education (Martin et al., 2020). Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has vastly accelerated this trend, compelling almost all education providers to migrate their courses to online learning platforms (Theelen & Van Breukelen, 2022). In view of other profound crises that affect mobility, such as climate change, political instabilities and future pandemics, it is safe to assume that online learning will remain in demand, even in a post-pandemic world ) (Bayne et al., 2020). In this context, while educational research  has  made  significant  progress  in  establishing  design  principles  that  ensure  effective  online teaching  and  learning,  the  main  focus  of  this  scholarly  work  is  on  the  acquisition  of  declarative knowledge  and  cognitive  skills.  Moreover,  since  very  little  is  known  about  the  online  teaching  and distance  learning  of  psychomotor skills  (Kouhia  et  al.,  2021;  Lehtiniemi  et  al.,  2023),  this  paper  and 
exhibition  explore  how  eye-tracking  technology  (ETT)  creates  unique  opportunities  to  improve  craft education in hybrid and distant learning settings.

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