Evaluation of Learner Achievement within Active Multimodal Presentation (Amp) and Static E-Learning Modes

While current e-learning activities mainly focus on static mode, this paper proposed a simple Active Multimodal Presentation (AMP) application, and evaluated the student achievement in static and active modes. Of the various AMP acquisition and presentation tools, this paper addresses the use of active text as input and output interaction and animation with video for presenting some learning contents. Other gestural modalities such as iconic forms including pointing fingers, open, flat or cupped hand, etc., are left for coming experiments. For the purpose of this study, learning contents have been built in a form of static and active presentations within the proposed application. We formed two different equivalent student groups that are given the pre and post tests. In this paper we showed the evaluation procedure and some obtained results using our proposed AMP prototype. The result of the statistical analysis of student achievements showed no significant difference in the statistical mean between the experimental group and the control group with respect to the post test. Achievements of both selected groups, the control and experimental, where F(1,17)=0.521 and the p-value= 0.480. However, the student achievement comparison revealed an interesting result showing that experimental students using AMP e-learning module achieve more knowledge than those using the traditional static e-learning modules. Index Terms – E-Learning, Static Learning, Active Multimodal Presentation, Usability Evaluation, Student Achievement.