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Innovate, Journal of Online Education.

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  • The future of education will be shaped by innovative online communication tools that will change both the context and the nature of the relationships that influence education. In this article, Nancy Evans, Thalia M. Mulvihill, and Nancy J. Brooks explore the educational possibilities of Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual online environment. The authors posit that a multiuser virtual enviroment such as Second Life offers a valuable medium for enhancing and enriching online education because it meets human needs for belonging, esteem, and self-actualization; complements users' motivations for engaging with technology; and aids in building relationships and personal connections in an online environment, thereby offering transformative learning and teaching opportunities.
  • One way of better understanding Net-Generation learners is to examine the texts they create on online social networking, blogging, and image sites as well as in virtual worlds. Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors, discuss the unique challenges this group of learners may present for instructors who do not share their technological immersion, and suggest the means by which such challenges may be overcome. To accommodate the needs of the Net Generation, Mabrito and Medley suggest that faculty must reconsider traditional pedagogy and integrate more innovative ways of instruction for this significantly different population of students.
Objectives of this site:
  • Identify the main characteristic of Interactive Multimedia (IMM) as empowering the user.
  • Distinguish between levels of interactivity and their applications.

  • Recognise the educational benefits of IMM.

  • Outline good teaching practices in the delivery of multimedia courses.

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Interactivity in teaching and learning
by nicos souleles - Monday, 5 May 2008, 07:56 pm
 

The contents of this Moodle site are based on the web page: http://www.outofthebox.nu/interactivity. I am moving the content of that site over to this Moodle site to take advantage of the interactive elements offered by this VLE. One of the challenges is to come up with lessons and activities that utilise the interactive and collaborative tools offered by Moodle.

Contributions and suggestions are welcome.



This site may be of interest to:
  • Students of multimedia, vocational and undergraduate levels,
  • Multimedia designers and content developers,
  • Educators designing interactive courseware,
  • Instructional Designers working with multimedia technology,
  • Multimedia educators.
Nicos Souleles
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