MoodleStories: Improving Learner Motivation Through Interactive Visual Stories

Pedro Sanvido, Isabel Manssour

2023

Abstract

As courses ministered in online environments continue to grow in size and interest, concerns regarding poor academic outcomes and low completion rates remain true. We have developed MoodleStories, a digital storytelling-based solution for improving learning motivation and engagement to compensate for these shortcomings. MoodleStories was developed as an authorship tool available on the Moodle platform. We have devised a Python programming course accompanied by an interactive and thematic comic story about the course. Six participants were interviewed by the end of the course as a validation instrument. Following the interview study, participants showed increased awareness of the activities that dictated story progression and were eager to use MoodleStories in future learning contexts. We argue that MoodleStories expands the design scope and possibilities in applying nonlinear narratives in learning contexts and thus enables the creation of engaging experiences that promote motivation and foster active involvement with coursework.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sanvido P. and Manssour I. (2023). MoodleStories: Improving Learner Motivation Through Interactive Visual Stories. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-641-5, SciTePress, pages 201-208. DOI: 10.5220/0011842000003470

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu23,
author={Pedro Sanvido and Isabel Manssour},
title={MoodleStories: Improving Learner Motivation Through Interactive Visual Stories},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2023},
pages={201-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011842000003470},
isbn={978-989-758-641-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - MoodleStories: Improving Learner Motivation Through Interactive Visual Stories
SN - 978-989-758-641-5
AU - Sanvido P.
AU - Manssour I.
PY - 2023
SP - 201
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0011842000003470
PB - SciTePress