Creating Online Storylines for Increasing the Knowledge Retention

Abstract

Storyline creates a partnership between the teacher and the learners in which the teacher designs the ‘line’ – the chapters of the story, and the learners create and develop the story. The Storyline approach encourages children to study and search for information with a real sense of purpose. Students get involved in learning process actively and construct their knowledge in an authentic environment. Active learning in authentic learning environment supports long term memory and knowledge retention. The paper is an attempt to explore the views of students about storyline method on their knowledge retention. The results obtained indicate storyline method can enhance student retention of knowledge because it provides higher order thinking, technology usage, active, authentic and constructivist learning environment for students.