How DeVry University Creates Innovative Learning With Interactive Video

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 The challenge

Maintaining student engagement is a pervasive challenge for faculty. Professors Dr. Gina Cooper and Dr. Victoria Kim from DeVry University embraced top-down and bottom-up approaches to help faculty implement creative ideas that engage students.

The solution

PlayPosit by WeVideo gave DeVry University an interactive learning solution to students "zoning out" during "long, boring videos." It helps both curriculum designers and individual teachers guide, track, and measure student engagement. Professors used PlayPosit to:

• Empower learner-made content: Students react to case studies using interactive video elements.
• Implement structured playlists: Dr. Kim's interviews with faculty highlight swapping long-form content for modularized chunks for better understanding, engagement, and retention.
• Create interactive video questions: Make every course interactive with engaging touch points, feedback, and questions to guide understanding.

The results

Struggling with attendance in July 2021, Dr. Cooper brought interactive video tools to her November course. Here are the results before and after using PlayPosit:

Before PlayPosit (July 2021):

• Core success (grades A through C) ranked 36.4%
• Average score was 57.17

After PlayPosit (November 2021):

• Core success ranked 84.7%
• Average score was 85.57

Dr. Kim reports the following analytics on student engagement with PlayPosit:

• 10,000+ views for Dr. Cooper’s course
• 22,000 views on a video that wasn’t required
• 86,000 views was the highest viewed bulb from the health sciences area
• The second highest viewed bulb was 58,000 views from the math department
• Dr. Kim reports 800 views for individual faculty use
  

Both faculty and students report positive feedback, great usability, and that PlayPosit is helpful for enhancing student engagement, active participation, and performance.

Key takeaways

Using interactive video in higher education classes has shown:

• Enhanced Learning: Interactive video boosts innovation, creativity, and engagement for faculty and students.
• Effective Assessment: Validates PlayPosit as a productive engagement tool.
• Higher Ed Potential: Diverse uses for curriculum designers, faculty, and students.

Regardless of class size, learning style, or environment, PlayPosit by WeVideo creates a dynamic solution for enhancing student engagement university-wide with interactive video.

Hear their story

Watch Professors Dr. Cooper and Dr. Kim share their approach to using PlayPosit in DeVry University's mathematics and health science courses, as well as for agile redevelopment, recorded during the PlayPosit Exchange summer event. Access the full session below.

Benefits of interactive video

• Triple engagement: Interactive video proves effective curricula with powerful analytics that highlight learner gaps, completion rates, and performance.
• Flexible on-demand learning: Clickable elements like fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, and interactive video questions activate learning in any class or learning environment.
• Target instruction: Modularize thematic content with playlists, jumps, and sequenced pathways that guide learning and retention.

Practical strategies for educators

• Design strategic video questions: Tailor video questions to meet specific learning objectives, learner needs, and comprehension levels. 
• Add interactions: Develop and improve new or existing content with interactivity. Dr. Kim highlights a faculty member who uses interactivity to streamline learning.
• Utilize data to repeat outcomes: Save time on curricular design with consistently proven curricula. Measure and assess learning with analytics tools, then remediate and repeat.