Multimedia interactive exercises for online training

verfasst von

Anna Perini, Kurt Schneider, Linda Marilena Bertolli, Angelo Susi, Artem Gabbasov, Paolo Busetta, Matteo Pedrotti

Abstract

Multimedia tutorials are more and more considered for online professional training as a valuable complement to traditional in presence training. Indeed, video and pictures can offer rich detail, show relevant context, and provide concrete visualisations of key concepts. An important aspect of achieving effective learning is to create an engaging experience for the learner. This can be obtained by increasing the level of interactivity required to the students, keeping them active and interested. However, there are different categories of interactive video, and what type of interactivity works best for online training needs to be systematically investigated. Moreover, the effort in developing such multimedia tutorials by instructional designers should be sustainable to enable large scale adoption. This calls for the development of appropriate methods and tools to support authors and teachers from the conception of an exercise to its deployment and evolution. These challenges have been addressed in the context of an industrial innovation project called ELEVATE (E-LEarning with Virtual interAcTive Experience). In order to collect empirical evidence on what type of interactive multimedia exercise could be effective in training, we performed an experiment to compare online training exercises based on linear videos with ones based on interactive videos having a graph-structure. Meanwhile, prototypes of the ELEVATE tool suite were being developed and validated in an iterative approach, by adding advanced features, such as those enabling the production of customisable exercises. In this paper, we present the design of the experiment and an execution with sixteen subjects, which provided useful results. The ELEVATE tool suite and the companion methodology are also described, together with the mechanisms it provides to develop customisable multimedia exercises.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Praktische Informatik

Externe Organisation(en)

Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Università degli Studi di Trento
Delta Informatica SpA

Typ

Artikel

Journal

Multimedia tools and applications

Band

82

Seiten

38319-38343

Anzahl der Seiten

25

ISSN

1380-7501

Publikationsdatum

10.2023

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Software, Medientechnik, Hardware und Architektur, Computernetzwerke und -kommunikation

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 9 – Industrie, Innovation und Infrastruktur

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-15157-8 (Zugang: Geschlossen)