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Students and teachers can now create and share their personalized video experiences using Kaltura Interactive Video Paths, a newly acquired learning tool on SharkMedia. Interactive Video Paths allow learners to “choose their own adventure.” Interactive videos can quickly offer a guide or “hotspot” to a specific topic for information. Students can personalize their own viewing experience, rather than scrubbing through a vast video timeline and inadvertently missing valuable information which makes for a more user-friendly experience. Kaltura Interactive Video Paths offers some exciting new features including: Allowing viewers to play an active role by choosing their preferred actions and learning paths. Building choice-based video paths that increase engagement. Tracking views to better understand behavior and gain valuable insights through choices made.   Interactive video paths give students the opportunity to control the story.  Interactive video paths can transform the learning experience from a passive learning activity to an exchange of information where students take an active role. If learners can determine or control “what to what to do next” then, they are more likely to engage in learning. Interactive video increases learner-content interactivity. Here are a few suggestions for creating interactive video paths. Group Activities Video paths can be used […]

Group assignments are a useful way to bring students together and give them important real-world experiences. They can take the form of projects, presentations, or collaborative papers. This article includes some strategies that can be used to successfully manage group projects.