Educational pills: collection of automated tools for its development

Abstract

Educational pills for the presentation of short learning lessons have been shown to help students to better retain information, motivate, and perform on assessments that follow this learning. One of the steps of the instructional design proposed by methodologies for this development, associates the production of short lessons in an entertaining and creative way with the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Thus, there are multiple technological resources supported by web platforms that provide editing, production, downloading and socialization facilities. This reference work aims to characterize a collection of web platforms available for editing interactive videos, so that they can be used in the development of educational pills that are inserted as learning objects in the virtual training platform of the Metropolitan University or in other content socialization spaces such as YouTube. Eight automated tools are analyzed, their fundamental characteristics and possibilities of use according to their payment plans. A development scheme is proposed for PowToon, whose working environment is in accordance with the anticipated needs for the production of educational pills in the subject Constitutional Law II.