Interactive Storytelling: Opportunities for Online Course Design

Sally Baldwin, Yu-Hui Ching

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Abstract

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 the implications of interactive storytelling for online course design.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)179-186
Number of pages8
JournalTechTrends
Volume61
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2017

Keywords

  • Course design
  • Data visualization
  • Dynamic presentation
  • Interactive storytelling
  • Multisensory media
  • Narration
  • Online education
  • Storytelling

EGS Disciplines

  • Instructional Media Design

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