iVideo - Interactive Videos as an Instrument for E-Learning and Knowledge Construction

As a multitude of studies has already revealed, illustrations can be profitably used to convey knowledge. While the importance of videos continues to increase on the internet, we notice major changes in usage patterns. In addition to the pure perception of pictographic material, interactivity especially in e-learning is considered to become more and more important. Although professional tools for creating interactive videos already exist, they hold serious disadvantages. Besides high licensing fees, it is almost impossible for a non-professional user to handle these tools due to their complexity. Therefore the aim is to develop an open and scalable tool for creating interactive videos, which is easy to use. The user shall be enabled to interact with videos directly and also to produce interactive videos without professional help. Within this paper the idea and realization of a tool for generating interactive videos is presented and discussed.