Background

For many years, educational videos have been used to better illustrate principles previously delivered by lecture or written media.  Computer-based educational  modular presentations have sometimes contained interactive multi media where students access material as independent learners.  Excellent teaching modules have been developed by computer programmers under direction of educators in a multitude of university courses.  Developers in this institution emulated work done by Dr. Daetwyler and his team from the Drexal University College of Medicine  (http://webcampus.drexelmed.edu/doccom/user/).  Each module is usually created for a single educational purpose, and cannot be created or altered by the educator without the assistance of a computer programmer. 
The annotated video player is a software application that enables the educator to independently insert educational videos into a template and link them to supplemental multi media as a self directed learning module in a web based format.

Members of the Educational and Research Technology Services (Coupal, C, Boechler, K), assised researchers (Premkumar, K, Cowie, N) in the College of Medicine to develop user-friendly educational modules in specific undergraduate courses.

Should other educators (national and international) wish to acquire educational modules, we would do our best to support these efforts.

Description of AVP

The AVP is a, stand-alone software application that is fully functional, when integrated into a web-based interface such as Learn 9.  Media utilized by the AVP can be remote from the player, and have the ability to stream via an internet connection. 

Once the video is loaded into the player, the educator determines cue points within the video that triggers events to occur. 

Events include:

1. Pausing the video to pause at predetermined cue points
2. Displaying concurrent annotations during playback that alert the student to watch for events in the video
3. Loading links to supplementary learning materials that the student can activate (audio, video, pictures, web links, library links, feedback, wiki)
4. Linking questions to the video
5. Linking answers to questions once the student submits an answer to the facilitator
6. Displaying a Picture-in-Picture clarification of material delivered in the original video

To see the producer view to input data in the AVP, download the PDF file called kel's producer mode pdf in the navigation bar.