The cinema8 app is growing year by year and interactive video is an important part of it. With the current quarantine restrictions, many places around the world rely on online education. Interactive videos allow online students to interact with educational content, providing students with a unique experience.

In real life, we often learn from our actions and decisions. The interactive post movie gives us a similar experience. It consists of clickable options with different results depending on the student’s decision. This turns out to be an excellent method of learning in several ways:

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Interactive videos help engage students. The learning experience is not just one-way communication, the learner engages in the process by playing an active role while watching the movie. Even the most mundane subject can be of interest if the movie prompts the viewer to interact with the material being watched! Interaction leads to a deeper level of commitment, which leads to a lower level of learning. Thanks to this active experience, memory recovery is also optimized.

Making decisions

An interactive movie requires making decisions using a series of decision points in the movie. This makes the student think more about what is happening in the film. It forces the student to pay attention and focus on making the best decision. The decision making may be in the hands of the student, but the consequences of the actions taken will also be shown to the student to learn! With a large number of decisions to be made, each decision has an impact on the possible outcome and consequences – the interactive video aims to show what needs to be done and what can happen if wrong decisions are made! Making decisions leads to different paths for different learners.

Data analysis

Due to its visibility, the selections and clicks made in the interactive video can be analyzed, and thus the interactive video is not only an educational resource but also a data recovery tool.

When the interactive post video is part of a cinema8, it can be used to show the teacher useful information. The teacher can collect data that may be useful – incl. Analyzing data about students’ choices and general trends can provide teachers with useful information and guide further learning. The decisions students make in the interactive film provide an insight into where the students are in their learning process, what interests them most, and where to go.

 Gamification

Interactive video can be viewed as a game.

The interactive post movie is not only a learning experience but also an adventurous experience that most students enjoy. Interacting with video material can be perceived as a game – the entertainment element is of course part of that. Gamification can be actively used by students as a decision or choice to earn rewards (such as badges, points, points, or certificates). Interactive video offers education / learning in the form of leisure activities…. That’s why interactive videos make it easy to present topics that can be complex or boring!

Understand

Interactive post videos improve understanding. This is because learners not only passively ‘observe’ and ‘listen’, but also have the opportunity to ‘act’ actively. To really test their understanding of a topic, students need to interact with the video and experience the consequences of their decisions. Students get instant feedback as they answer instructions and questions in the video (as the video guides them in a specific direction based on their decisions). This further strengthens their understanding of the subject. In this way, the interactive elements allow the student to really understand the content.

An interactive movie requires making decisions using a series of decision points in the movie. This makes the student think more about what is happening in the film. It forces the student to pay attention and focus on making the best decision. The decision making may be in the hands of the student, but the consequences of the actions taken will also be shown to the student to learn! With a large number of decisions to be made, each decision has an impact on the possible outcome and consequences – the interactive video aims to show what needs to be done and what can happen if wrong decisions are made! Making decisions leads to different paths for different learners.