Interactive Educational Materials Research Articles

Criteria for Evaluating the Quality of Interactive Didactic Materials

Interactive teaching materials and didactic applications are widely used in educational activities from primary schools to universities and higher educational institutions. Unfortunately, the quality of these materials does not always match the requirements they should meet. But the question is, what are those requirements? What are the criteria that will ensure the quality of the materials? The article contains proposals of possible criteria for examining and evaluating the quality of interactive educational materials. The overall assessment of the quality of a didactic application or learning material is created based on the evaluation of three key criteria: content structuring, design efficiency and evaluation system.

Teaching the Teacher: Implementing a Toolkit to Standardize Effective Preceptorship of Prelicensure Nursing Students.

Faculty can support successful preceptor-led clinical experiences by providing registered nurses with educational resources to guide them in the preceptor role. To upgrade our institution's educational resources using an online platform that enables just-in-time access. This was a quality improvement project to create and implement an educational resource tool kit for prelicensure nursing preceptors. Half of our preceptors (n = 46, 52%) had no formal preceptor education. The preceptors used all the resources and were satisfied with the tool kit's content and ease of use. Implementing the tool kit was feasible. Further development includes ( a ) adding content regarding diverse students and trauma-informed nursing care, ( b ) incorporating interactive educational materials, ( c ) exploring avenues to reduce cognitive load, ( d ) creating a prelicensure preceptor preparation course, and ( e ) considering avenues for providing open access for nursing faculty of prelicensure programs.

Concurrent Hospice and Dialysis Care: Considerations for Implementation.

Hospice positively impacts care at the end of life for patients and their families. However, compared to the general Medicare population, patients on dialysis are half as likely to receive hospice. Concurrent hospice and dialysis care offers an opportunity to improve care for people living with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). We sought to (1) develop a conceptual model of the Program and (2) identify key components, resources, and considerations for further implementation. We conducted a template analysis of qualitative interviews and convened a community advisory panel (CAP) to get feedback on current concurrent care design and considerations for dissemination and implementation. Thirty-nine patients with late-stage chronic kidney disease (CKD), family caregivers, bereaved family caregivers, hospice clinicians, nephrology clinicians, administrators, and policy experts participated in interviews. A purposive subset of 19 interviewees composed the CAP. Qualitative feedback on concurrent care design refinements, implementation, and resources. Participants identified four themes that define an effective model of concurrent hospice and dialysis: it requires (1) timely goals-of-care conversations and (2) an interdisciplinary approach; (3) clear guidelines ensure smooth transitions for patients and families; and (4) hospice payment policy must support concurrent care. CAP participants provided feedback on the phases of an effective model of concurrent hospice and dialysis, and resources, including written and interactive educational materials, communication tools, workflow processes, and order sets. We developed a conceptual model for concurrent hospice and dialysis care and a corresponding resource list. In addition to policy changes, clinical implementation and educational resources can facilitate scalable and equitable dissemination of concurrent care. Concurrent hospice and dialysis care must be systematically evaluated via a hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial that includes the resources outlined herein, based on our conceptual model of concurrent care delivery.

Harnessing Virtual Reality to Mitigate Heat-Related Injuries in Construction Projects

The construction industry has witnessed a surge in heat-related accidents alongside rising summertime temperatures, exposing workers to potential injuries. The absence of specific heat stress standards by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) underscores the urgent need for more comprehensive and interactive educational materials to prevent such incidents in construction projects. This study proposes the adoption of an interactive Virtual Reality (VR) application to offer construction workers realistic and effective training, mitigating heat-related injuries. During the training sessions, VR headsets were utilized to immerse workers in two lifelike scenarios: (1) Addressing self-care during heat exhaustion; (2) Assisting a coworker experiencing heat exhaustion. A case study evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed VR training for 82 construction workers from two companies. Company A had traditional training, while Company B used VR training. Both groups took pre- and post-assessment surveys with six questions. The pre-assessment found no significant knowledge difference between the groups. After training, VR showed a significant reduction in incorrect answers compared to traditional training. Statistical tests confirmed the superiority of VR training (p-value = 0.00152 < 0.05), suggesting its effectiveness in preventing heat-related injuries in construction compared to traditional training methods.

Exploring the Use of Microsoft PowerPoint for Early Childhood Education: A Community Engagement Program

In traditional early childhood education, teachers often rely on paper-based materials for teaching letters and numbers recognition, which can quickly bore young children. This study aimed to explore the use of Microsoft PowerPoint as an interactive learning media for early childhood education. Using a qualitative approach, the study involved a community engagement program in Harapan Bangsa PAUD, East Java, Indonesia, to introduce the use of Microsoft PowerPoint to teachers. Interviews, observations, and event documentation provided data for descriptive analysis. The program improved teachers' ability to experiment with new and interactive educational material, according to the findings. Community involvement programs improve early childhood education and promote the Tri Dharma Perguruan Tinggi, according to participants and the PAUD Harapan Bangsa. This study highlights the potential of using technology, specifically Microsoft PowerPoint, in early childhood education, and the importance of community engagement in promoting innovation and improving education quality.Highlights:
 
 Microsoft PowerPoint as a learning medium for preschool children
 Community engagement programs to explore innovative learning media
 ICT incorporation in early childhood education
 
 Keywords: Early childhood education, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Learning Media, Microsoft PowerPoint, Community Engagement.

Color as a Trigger: the Effect of Chromatic Characteristics of Touch Buttons on the Motivation

The object of the study is modern smartphone users, the subject is the influence of chromatic characteristics of touch buttons on the motivation. The purpose of the study was to experimentally test the hypothesis that various chromatic characteristics of buttons that a person sees on a touch screen (their brightness, tone, saturation) can act as visual triggers and have a noticeable effect on the motivation to touch them. The experiment involved 48 people with normal color vision (24 men and 24 women) aged 19 to 21 years. The color stimuli of the experiment were developed on the basis of the PCCS color system (Practical Color Coordinate System) and included 52 shades. The analysis evaluated the frequency of occurrence of (1) individual colors; (2) groups of colors; (3) colors of a certain tone; (4) the probability of choosing a certain color out of two. The frequency of occurrence was assessed using procedures and methods of visual statistics. To estimate the probability of choosing a certain shade from two, the method of associative rules was used. The analysis showed that the most motivating are the shades with high saturation of four tones – bright blue and yellow, green and red colors. Women are more motivated by red and red-purple shades, men – by yellow, orange, green and green-blue. At the same time, the strategy of choosing one shade out of two in a pair is more predictable for women than for men. The obtained data have a wide application potential. They can be used in the design of websites, web applications, interactive educational materials, as well as training programs for users with different socio-demographic characteristics.

ХИМИЯ ПӘНІН ОҚЫТУДА ИНТЕРАКТИВТІ ӘДІСТЕР МЕН ТЕХНОЛОГИЯЛАРДЫ ҚОЛДАНУ

The article addresses issues related to the definition of new values in order to improve the quality of modern chemistry and education, the personal development of students, the problems of teaching strategies that awaken students ' interest and motivation in the Natural Sciences. Calling the attention of students to education, science with New available information that meets the requirements of the time, fresh data in the field of Education. The focus is on interactive learning using information and communication technologies, using the discipline in practice. Therefore, our goal is to compile an interactive course in Chemistry based on the peculiarities of interactive learning related to information and communication technologies and more interesting presentations of the discipline. The beginning of our work consisted in a review of initial research devoted to the development of theoretical foundations for the use of information and communication technologies. Next, we present some developed methodological options that demonstrate the possibility of using interactive methods. At the second stage, in accordance with various interactive chemistry curricula and analysis of chemistry curricula in Turkey and Kazakhstan, we have developed interactive educational material with interesting built-in content for general secondary schools. In the next step, all the prepared materials were tested, and the methods used in teaching chemistry came into one form.

DEVELOPMENT OF EDUCATIONAL GAMES BASED ON INTERACTIVE POWERPOINT MATERIALS OF SUBSTANCES AND ITS CHANGES

Learning media aims as a communication tool to convey a material in learning. Developing an Interactive PowerPoint-based Educational Game Media is one of the general objectives of this research. The development model used in this research is ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation). However, the Implementation phase was not carried out due to the pandemic. The data obtained are qualitative data types (from the media development process) and quantitative data (from data validation results by media experts). This research resulted in a product in the form of an interactive PowerPoint-based educational game media material substance, substance and its changes, which have been validated by several experts, namely material expert lecturers, media expert lecturers and science teachers at Al-Furqan Madrasatul Qur'an Tebuireng Jombang Middle School. With a validation score of 2.98 out of 4.00 which is categorized as valid.

Color as a Trigger: the Effect of Chromatic Characteristics of Touch Buttons on the Motivation

The object of the study is modern smartphone users, the subject is the influence of chromatic characteristics of touch buttons on the motivation. The purpose of the study was to experimentally test the hypothesis that various chromatic characteristics of buttons that a person sees on a touch screen (their brightness, tone, saturation) can act as visual triggers and have a noticeable effect on the motivation to touch them. The experiment involved 48 people with normal color vision (24 men and 24 women) aged 19 to 21 years. The color stimuli of the experiment were developed on the basis of the PCCS color system (Practical Color Coordinate System) and included 52 shades. The analysis evaluated the frequency of occurrence of (1) individual colors; (2) groups of colors; (3) colors of a certain tone; (4) the probability of choosing a certain color out of two. The frequency of occurrence was assessed using procedures and methods of visual statistics. To estimate the probability of choosing a certain shade from two, the method of associative rules was used. The analysis showed that the most motivating are the shades with high saturation of four tones – bright blue and yellow, green and red colors. Women are more motivated by red and red-purple shades, men – by yellow, orange, green and green-blue. At the same time, the strategy of choosing one shade out of two in a pair is more predictable for women than for men. The obtained data have a wide application potential. They can be used in the design of websites, web applications, interactive educational materials, as well as training programs for users with different socio-demographic characteristics.

Techniques for creating and using interactive learning materials in the professional activities of a teacher

The purpose of the study is to determine the role of interactive educational materials in improving the organization of the educational process. Interactive educational materials visualize theoretical material (visual presentation of complex and inaccessible phenomena and processes); facilitate the perception of educational material (nonlinear presentation of educational content), are additional sources of information; create a rich interactive virtual environment (dialogic, addition and expansion of educational material, unlimited access to the necessary information); are the basis for the organization of independent work of schoolchildren, contribute to the solid consolidation of educational material; simulate learning situations in the online environment (involving schoolchildren in an active learning process, using virtual simulators); expand the range of types of group work to gain communication experience; make up the methodological support of interactive forms of education (brainstorming, didactic, situational role-playing games, trainings, etc.); allow to individualize the learning process by choosing the complexity of the interactive task; provide enhanced feedback. The authors demonstrate the methods of creating and using digital services for the teacher to develop interactive educational materials and their application in the study of subjects of the humanitarian module. The authors give examples of using various online services to develop interactive learning materials. The authors make a conclusion about the methodologically sound creation and use of interactive educational materials by the teacher in professional activities. This ensures the successful mastering of educational material by schoolchildren, helps to improve understanding and memorization of the content of complex topics, reduces the time for the perception of theoretical material, and allows students to organize independent work in a digital educational environment.

20. századi egyetemes történeti szöveggyűjtemény Interaktív tananyagok a középiskolai és egyetemi történelemoktatásban

Debreczeni, Márk – Hegedűs, Zoltán: 20th century universal historical text collection – Interactive educational materials for secondary school and university in history education Nowadays, Hungarian teachers and teacher trainees do not really use interactive teaching materials during their history lessons. However, in most school have the opportunity to use smartboards and other technical devices. They delay to make their lessons more interesting and more interactive. We need to change our teaching habits undoubtedly. In this study, we introduce our interactive online teaching material, which made for secondary school students and teachers. Teachers have toadapt new methods, teaching and learning techniques to keep step with the students of the 21st century. Nevertheless, it will be hopefully useful in the teacher-training program at the universities as well. This research introduces the differences and needs of diverse generations and the features of the interactive history textbook. In the MOODLE system, online and digitalized text sources, videos, records, different types of tests are equally used, which are suitable to measure students’ knowledge and skills. It is like an E-book, but other functions make the program more interactive. The whole material focus on the 20th century and divided into six periods. Each era have coherent textbooks and separated tests for practice. Moreover, the program offers multifarious and exciting ways of history learning and teaching.

Framework for Preparation of Engaging Online Educational Materials—A Cognitive Approach

This study examines the process of creating successful, engaging, interactive, and activity-based online educational materials, while taking the cognitive aspects of learners into account. The quality of online educational materials has become increasingly important in the recent period, and it is crucial that content is created that allows our students to learn effectively and enjoyably. In this paper, we present the milestones of curriculum creation and the resulting model, the criteria of selecting online learning environments, technical requirements, and the content of educational videos, interactive contents, and other methodological solutions. In addition, we also introduce some principles of instructional design, as well as a self-developed model that can be used to create effective online learning materials and online courses. There was a need for a self-developed, milestone-based, practice-oriented model because the models examined so far were too general and inadequate to meet the needs of a decentralized developer team, who work on different schedules, with significant geographical distances between them and do not place enough emphasis on taking cognitive factors into account. In these processes, special attention should be paid to having a clear and user-friendly interface, support for individual learning styles, effective multimedia, ongoing assistance and tracking of students’ progress, as well as interactivity and responsive appearance.

Effectiveness of a multifaceted intervention to improve interpersonal skills of physicians in medical consultations (EPECREM): protocol for a randomised controlled trial

IntroductionInterpersonal skills, encompassing communication and empathy, are key components of effective medical consultations. Although many organisations have implemented structured training programmes, limited evidence exists on their effectiveness in improving physician...

Commentary and Opinions: The Utilization of Social Media by Medical Residency Programs During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

As a result of COVID-19 pandemic, medical training has been greatly impacted globally. In Canada, out-of-province visiting clinical electives were cancelled. In addition, the Canadian Resident Matching Service (CaRMS) interviews were transitioned to being virtual since 2020. As residency programs are exploring new ways to overcome the challenges of elective cancellation, there has been a surge of residency program social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. Social media serves as a platform for residency programs to promote themselves in addition to posting interactive educational materials. Moreover, social media residency accounts provide a platform for medical students to learn about the programs and network virtually with fellow applicants, residents, program directors, and faculty members. Overall, social media is becoming a popular and valuable tool for residency programs to connect with the applicants during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Among the different social media platforms, Instagram seems to be more appealing to both residency programs and the graduating medical students. We report our observations regarding selected Canadian residency program Instagram accounts. To maximize the success of using social media, it is important for the residency programs to consider the attitudes of applicants towards the residency social media accounts. Future studies are needed to assess the effectiveness of the Canadian residency program social media accounts for the final year students applying for these programs.

Designing a Simulation Lab: The Process that Led to Action Potentials Explored and Extended, Two Simulation-Based Neurobiology Labs.

Simulations have long played an important role in neurobiology education. This paper describes the design-research process that led to development of two popular simulation-based neurobiology modules used in undergraduate biology classes. Action Potentials Explored, and the more in-depth and quantitative Action Potentials Extended, are the third generation of neurobiology teaching simulations the author has helped develop. The paper focuses on how we used the idea of constraining simulations as a way of tuning the modules to different student populations. Other designers of interactive educational materials may also find constraint a useful lens through which to view designs.

Knowledge Acquisition Base Learning: An Interactive Learning Approach

The Corona Covid-19 Pandemic revealed a deep deficiency in the current e-learning system. Many of the current e-Learning schemas have pursued their goals in conventional ways, albeit transferring the lecture hall to an online medium presentation. In essence, there had been little innovation above traditional classroom lecturing. In this paper, we propose a novel approach aimed at optimizing the learning outcomes of learning per student. Namely, we propose Iterative and Interactive e-Learning Platform, where the main focus is shifted towards the learner, i.e., the student. The role of the instructor is directed more towards the construction and presentation of interactive education material in a manner to enable the learner to acquire the minimum required knowledge and to achieve the intended outcomes in the most effective manner. Therefore, the proposed model is a knowledge-acquisition based learning management system (KA-LMS). Unlike the traditional ways of classroom or online lecturing, a student using KA-LMS is expected to achieve a quality of learning, never before achieved via standard offline or online pedagogical methodologies. The Iterative and Interactive KA-LMS is sought to enable various academic institutions to achieve quality standards in both online and on premise setup, thus avoiding the calamities of pandemics, such as the one imposed by the Corona Covid-19. The proposed KA-LMS will enable graduates to achieve the required skills and knowledge, which allow them to compete in a more vigorous and competitive marketplace at the local and global levels. The proposed KA-LMS has the inherent capability to monitor and control the progress of the learner entity based on the quantity and quality of the knowledge acquired by the learner. The proposed model will be tested in school and college environments, with real education subjects.

Unprepared management decreases education performance in kindergartens during Covid-19 pandemic

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the education sector, including kindergartens. Kindergarten principals and teachers make extra effort to maintain their education performance. This research aims to identify problems of the “learning from home” policy in kindergarten education and formulate possible solutions to overcome them. It involved 15 respondents from different regions in Indonesia. Data were collected through several methods, including face-to-face interviews, phone interviews, and online interviews through messaging services. The research result showed that many kindergarten management boards encountered difficulties in fulfilling planned education schedules and had the low achievement of objective targets. The problems existed in teachers, parents, and mainly students. Most teachers faced problems in creating interactive education materials and conducting an evaluation. Parents had hard times in assisting their children due to their busy activities and low pedagogical competence. Children had hard times due to limited resources for online learning. This research suggests solutions such as improving the mastery of information and communication technology (ICT), especially for teachers, parents, and children. However, the education system's long-term reform is needed to prepare for facing the possible catastrophe that affects the education system. It may include integrating online learning in the traditional education system and the development of supporting infrastructure and facilities.

Integrated Development Frameworks Based on Linked Data for Web- Based Interactive Educational Materials

This paper treats one of the activities of ICER (Innovation Centre for Educational Resources) in Kyushu University Library of Kyushu University, Japan. It is the development of attractive educational materials using recent ICT (Information Communication Technologies) like 3D CG (Computer Graphics) and VR (Virtual Reality) for enhancing the educational efficiency in the university. The authors have already proposed a framework dedicated for the development of web-based interactive 3D educational materials. Firstly, this paper introduces this development framework and its educational material example of Japanese history education. For developing attractive educational materials, such materials need multimedia contents like images and videos related to the teaching target. If the multimedia contents can be retrieved from the Internet, the development cost can be reduced. To do so, the authors focused on Linked Data and have already proposed an authoring tool of educational materials based on Linked Data. Furthermore, the authors integrated the authoring tool into the development framework. Secondly, this paper introduces the integrated development framework based on Lined Data and its educational materials of two teaching targets, i.e., IoT security education and Japanese history education. Furthermore, the authors have proposed another educational material development framework that supports 360VR images/videos and integrated the authoring tool with it. Finally, this paper introduces this integrated development framework based on Linked Data and its example educational material for IoT security education.

An Undergraduate Student-Led Neuroscience Outreach Program Shows Promise in Shifting Teen Attitudes About Drugs.

ABSTRACTDrug Outreach, Promoting Awareness (DOPA) is an undergraduate outreach program for local high school students designed to convey the neurobiological basis, risks, and addictive potential of commonly abused drugs. Here we describe DOPA and evaluate the program, including its impact on high school student attitudes about drug harm risk and addiction. Undergraduate neuroscience students versed in the neurobiology, physiology, and policy of drugs are trained in active learning methods, enabling them to create engaging and interactive classroom‐based educational materials. Survey results showed that participation in DOPA increased high school student perceptions of the addictive potential and harm risk of drugs, which studies have shown to be inversely correlated with drug‐taking. High school students also responded positively to the interactive nature of the program. These findings demonstrate how extensively trained undergraduates who are close peers to high school students can effectively lead science outreach initiatives and shift adolescent attitudes about drugs.

Human-Technology Interaction Considerations in Hearing Health Care: An Introduction for Audiologists.

Purpose Innovations in user-driven hearing technology and services have placed greater control in the hands of the patient. While these advances could address issues of hearing health care accessibility, their success rests on the assumption that patients possess sufficient technological competence to self-manage these products and services successfully. The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight the importance of focusing on usability, rather than just performance outcomes, during the design, development, and evaluation of user-driven hearing technology and services. Method This tutorial explores human-technology interaction and usability and discusses practical methods for applying these concepts in hearing health care research and development. Two case studies illustrate how usability can inform the design and development of interactive educational materials for patients and the evaluation of a commercially available mHealth app. Conclusions In order to derive benefit from innovations in hearing health care, products and services must be intuitively usable in addition to being accessible and affordable. The discipline of human-technology interaction provides a relevant and useful framework to guide future research and development efforts in user-driven hearing health care.