How to study effectively? As we learn, we are often confronted with unfamiliar tools. When you first enter the university, each professor will probably have a learning platform that they are used to, like WordPress, Brightspace, Tophat, etc. Of course, these platforms all belong to multimedia learning. It includes many functions, such as submitting assignments and completing quizzes, or providing courses lectures. For example, I’m an economics student, and this semester I’m enrolled in ECON 203 and ECON 245. My Prof. prefers to use Tophat to complete this course.
However, since I have never used Tophat before, I will use YouTube to understand how to use Tophat and its functions quickly.
For this video, we can quickly capture the correct information and functionality. This video is a screenshot of each step of the operation through multimedia learning principles. Modality Principle and Signaling Principle are used in this video. According to the explanation, people learn better from spoken text graphics than from printed text graphics. When explaining something, vocal learning can help us understand it better, such as knowing what is essential by tone, intonation, or voice volume. On the other hand, this video also uses arrows to highlight which steps we should do, as I described in detail in my last post about this principle.
In our life, many software and platforms will give us how to use their functions. Because it takes a lot of time to do research just by ourselves, and we don’t see some of the critical points.
If you have any questions, please leave comments for me. Thank you.
Hi, Jingjing.
Thank you for sharing; I think in the learning process, both teachers and students will use different learning tools; I have the same experience as you, this semester I have a class, the teacher, whether lecture or after class homework, she will use Tophat this tool to carry out. I also have a teacher before will use Tophat to test, so this software has become my learning. As the multimedia learning principles of signal and time coherence, when we are learning, grabbing the critical points while adding videos and animations can effectively let us learn more practical knowledge at the first time, compared to single text learning, which can make us more impressed with the main content of learning. In the video you shared, the use of arrows to tell us where to click next is very clear and concise in explaining how to use Tophat, which I also found very useful.
Thanks for your comments.