Interactivity Principle

“People learn better when they can control the pace of

presentation than when they receive a continuous

presentation.”

It’s Good to Listen to Old Proverbs

“Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may not remember. Involve me, and I'll

understand.”

-Proverb

Dale Says It’s Good to Interact

Cool! Pacing Control

Studies have shown that allowing learners to control the pace of WBL programs can improve learning.

Sweet! Now this presentation is officially “Interactivity principle” compliant!

Pacing is for LosersGive Me Some Examples

Let’s learn how to say “good night” in Japanese

“Oyasuminasai”

Piece of Cake Right?

So can you say “good night” in Japanese now? I bet you’d be better at it if you could go back and

repeatedly listen to it. So looks like letting the learner interact by

controlling pace really can help learning after all you unbeliever!

But isn’t There More to WBL and Interactivity than Pacing?

Interpersonal Interactivity Support for distributed cognition

Content Interactivity Dimensions (Sims, Roderick. Interactivity: A Forgotten Art?. [Online] Available

http://intro.base.org/docs/interact/, January 27, 1997.)

Engagement (instruction versus navigation) Control (user versus program) Concept (reactive, proactive, immersive)

Some Examples

Navigation Linear Branching Open

Feedback Assessment and

remediation Update and individualize

content

Some Cool Examples

Simulation Immersion

Click on the image to play the video clip

Now for the Excellent and Highly Interactive Assessment

Please answer the following questions:

1. What is the meaning of the “interactivity principle”?

2. Is it useful relative to WBL? Justify your answer.

Unfortunately the super AI program used to synchronously analyze assessment question responses and dynamically adjust the presentation to be perfectly inline with the learner’s current needs is experiencing technical difficulties due mainly in part to it’s non-existence.