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Interactivity in Instructional Videos

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The user experience of digital learning materials, including video, can be improved upon by enhancing the content with more engaging formats and greater interactivity. All instructional design decisions must be made based on how to best meet learning goals. This is true when adding interactivity, which has great potential for personalizing the learning experience, making it social, and involving the learner in a more active way, as well as providing an opportunity to integrate assessments, such as knowledge checks.

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    Author unknown (2013) edX101: How to create an edX course. http://files.edx.org/edX101_HowToCreateAnEdXCourse.pdf. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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    For an example of note-taking, see the following: http://student.worldcampus.psu.edu/a-z-index/online-note-taking. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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    For an example, see the NovoEd platform forums at the following link: http://help.novoed.com/hc/en-us/articles/200173076-Navigating-the-Forums. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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    See http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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    Bagley R (2014, 18 Aug) How “inconferences” unleash innovative ideas. Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccabagley/2014/08/18/how-unconferences-unleash-innovative-ideas/. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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    This tool has been used successfully in Learning Creative Learning (MIT Media Lab) and Leaders of Learning (HarvardX). For an example, see: https://unhangout.media.mit.edu/. Accessed 27 Apr 2018.

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Köster, J. (2018). Interactivity in Instructional Videos. In: Video in the Age of Digital Learning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93937-7_6

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