Interactive Media
How Can Using Interactive Media Improve Teaching and Learning?
Using interactive media in online courses can benefit learners by increasing engagement, promoting active learning, providing more personalized learning experiences, facilitating collaboration, and providing learners with immediate feedback. Interactive content can also be used to design simulations, or scenarios that replicate real-life situations, allowing learners to gain practical experience and build confidence.
When interactive media is intentionally used it can:
- Create an aesthetic appeal which can activate affective dimensions of learning
- Attract students' attention and sustain engagement
- Appeal to diverse learners and learning preferences
- Enhance and compliment written material
- Explain complex concepts or summaries of data more quickly and effectively
- Help students develop or refine visual and digital literacy skills
You can transform a passive asynchronous activity such as watching a video into an active learning experience by adding interactions. These interactions can be guiding questions, comments, prompts or embedded quizzes within the videos to increase student engagement and instructor presence. This replicates the interactions that often occur when watching videos in face-to-face classroom sessions.
Watch the examples in the EdMedia spotlight column. We have used H5P which is an open source tool.
Key Considerations: Interactive Media
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Where Can I Learn More?
- Teaching with Media workshop series
- Creating An Accessible and Copyright Compliant Course
- SFU Library Maker Commons
- LinkedIn Learning (free for SFU students, faculty and staff, formerly known as Lynda.com)
EdMedia Spotlight
JAPN 101
Animation-based learning videos can also be used to tell stories. Click on the image above to see one of 36 animated conversation videos created to support Japanese teachers and language learners at Canadian universities.
An H5P-based drag-and-drop activity is included as a comprehension check mid-way through (2:54) the above video. Click on the video above to view the interaction.
CRIM 230
The above animation, created for a CRIM 230 OL course, uses H5P interactive elements to show students how to cite legal cases and legislation using the Legal APA format. Click on the image above to view the animation.
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