Interaction in online learning can be crucial for learners’ learning outcomes. With traditional classrooms settings, learners interaction can be easily observed and changed by teachers. However, in the online learning contexts, it is rather difficult for teachers to get the learners interaction patterns with the videos, reading materials, or other forms of contents assigned to learners. When there is lack of real-human, or face-to-face interactions, learners who are dealing with multimedia learning contents could easily lose their attention or interest if they do not have a strong drive to learn. Thus, find the motivation as well as the appropriate ways to interact with the learners can be important to improve the learners learning outcomes.
Videos that come with questions that are built in between the sections of the videos are a popular form of multimedia for interaction. The questions could be set at the important points and learners could answer the questions to check for understanding. In our group project, there will be such this type of videos and students are required to answer simple yes or no questions, multiple choice questions as well as open-ended questions to sparkle the thoughts. The open-ended question among these questions is a good way for the learners respond to the video. They could input their own thoughts at different points or stages of the videos and the teacher could read the inputs and provide feedback or even present them in the class with the learners admission.
Since our project teaches a theoretical concept, we would suggest the students to go find examples in real-life and analyze the example, and then explain the case they found using what they’ve learned. The feedback will be given both by teachers and the fellow learners through online discussion forums. This is because we think that learning from the peers is also an important step in the study and that this student-student interaction of giving others advice as well as receiving advice could help the learners learn more than in a learner-teacher or learner-content interaction.
Finally, the video will be presented with subtitles, transcripts as well as audios made to present the content of the video with necessary explanations of some visual contents that are not expressed in texts. This addresses the inclusive design we learned previous and aims to consider learners with possible situations that may have barriers with this type of media we chose for the learning.
Peer’s feedback
I really like that your students would need “to find examples in real-life and analyze” them. This task could be even more interesting if your students live in different cities and countries. I do not know what particular idea you have in mind, but let’s say you ask students to check the price of the same product in different stores and take a picture of the price tag. Later all students can analyze their findings and explain the price difference (if any).