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Interactive Storytelling: Opportunities For Online Course Design, Sally Baldwin, Yu-Hui Ching
Interactive Storytelling: Opportunities For Online Course Design, Sally Baldwin, Yu-Hui Ching
Educational Technology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Compelling interactive stories can be used to get and keep learners’ interest in online courses. Interactive storytelling presents information in a manner that involves learners by allowing them to connect with the content. Incorporating interactive storytelling into online education offers the potential to increase student interest and knowledge retention. Interactive storytelling also allows learners to create a personalized experience. By analyzing examples of interactive stories, we identified five features of interactive storytelling: dynamic presentation, data visualization, multisensory media, interactivity, and narration. We explain each feature, and its educational benefits, with illustrations provided from five interactive storytelling examples. We also discuss …
Using The Interaction Geography Slicer To Visualize New York City Stop & Frisk, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Francis A. Pearman
Using The Interaction Geography Slicer To Visualize New York City Stop & Frisk, Benjamin R. Shapiro, Francis A. Pearman
Learning Sciences Faculty Publications
This paper adapts and uses a dynamic visualization environment called the Interaction Geography Slicer (IGS) developed by the 1st author to visualize data about New York City’s Stop & Frisk Program. Findings and discussion focus on how this environment provides new ways to view, interact with and query large-scale data sets over space and through time to support analyses of and public discussion about New York City’s Stop & Frisk Program.