Chapter 6: Knowledge Acquisition by Designing Hypervideos: Different Roles of Writing during Courses of “New” Media Production

Abstract

This chapter reflects on different roles of writing in the context of learning by hypervideo design. It uses collaborative hypervideo design as a method to foster knowledge and literacy acquisition in a series of university courses. The chapter focuses on design activities involving multimedia products by giving the example of designing the so-called that integrate audio-visual information of videos with text-based information. It implements the task of designing hypervideos from scratch in a regular university course. The chapter shows that students acquired media-related knowledge and literacy skills with regard to designing learning environments. It makes it possible to realize hypervideo design tasks and integrate them into regular university courses, and that the models and results in writing research give an inspiring framework to organize and structure such courses. Keywords: hypervideos; literacy skills; multimedia products; university courses