Media Triggered Collaborative Activities

Aneesha Bakharia, Innovations Officer, Teaching and Learning Support Services (TALSS), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane. Email: a.bakharia@qut.edu.au

Keywords

Synchronous Media, Collaboration, Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Audio, Video

Abstract

It is common place for recorded lectures and presentations to be synchronised with their accompanying PowerPoint slides and published to the web. The aim of this research is transform the use of media in online environments form passive to collaborative. Media will be used to trigger activities that enhance reflection, concept checking and critical thinking. This poster explores the technical feasibility of designing an interface that would allow lecturers to add cue points to Adobe Flash video and sequence a range of collaborative activities available within a Learning Management System (LMS). The prototype is implemented in Macromedia Flex and utilises activities from QUT's Online Learning and Teaching (OLT) system.