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Interactive Tutorials

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An interactive tutorial refers to tutorials with multiple media that allows the student to interact with the content that they are learning. Interactive tutorial components can include activities such as podcasts, learning games, quizzes, audio, and video.

Interactive Tutorials

What are the educational uses and benefits? tutorial image

Assessment:
  • Provides instructors with a means to formatively evaluate student learning.
  • Provides instructors with the opportunity to gauge areas in which students are succeeded or in areas in which they may need remediation.
Motivation:
  • Provides students with interactive activities rather than lectures.
  • Gains the attention and motivates learners who learn by auditory, visual, and kinesthetic means.

Interactive Tutorials

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View an example of interactive tutorials created by the CITT:
View an example of interactive tutorials:

Interactive Tutorials

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There are many interactive tutorials available for free on the internet at sites such as the Visual Perception Online Laboratory from Purdue University.

There are many ways to build custom interactive tutorials using software and tools such as:

Interactive tutorials can also be built using simple web design tools and the inclusion of well structured activities. For an example of how to design effective interactive tutorials visit The Instructional Design tutorials that were developed for the Partnership in Global Learning at the University of Florida.

Interactive Tutorials

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