This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. The use of interactive media in education may depend largely on the subject matter. A casual search of interactive, educational media on the internet seems to yield mostly applications about topics in STEM, especially math. These applications are designed for: The examples of interactive media…
This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. When used to describe media, immersion is the replacement of physical reality with virtual reality (Cummings & Bailenson, 2016), and educational media have varying levels of immersion (Figure 1). Immersive learning is advantageous for simulating situations that are physically impossible, counterproductive, too dangerous, or too…
This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. Tables Versus Graphs Numerical data are commonly presented as tables or graphs (Ainsworth, 2021). Tables have the additional advantage of including non-numerical data, as exemplified in Table 1. A typical reason to display numerical data on a table is so that students can extract these…
This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. Feedback is a signal to learners to let them know whether they are on the right track in meeting the course objectives and to correct faulty knowledge. In Open Learning, students have the opportunity to obtain feedback from the instructor as well as from interactive…
This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. Cognitive capacity is the amount of processing through audio and visual channels of working memory (Mayer & Fiorella, 2021). Essential overload (information overload) occurs when too much necessary information is presented too quickly. Dynamic media, such as animations (Castro-Alonso & Sweller, 2021) and podcasts that…
This guide is available as a Word document or PDF. The learning outcomes of STEM courses frequently require students to perform mathematical computations or apply specific rules to solve problems. The rules may be physical laws, chemical reaction mechanisms, the syntax of programming languages, or financial accounting formulas. Including worked examples in the lesson is…