Choose Your Own Education: Interactive Fiction and Online Instruction
- Conference Year
- Online Northwest 2021
- Session
- 2
- Type
- Breakout Session
- Presenters
- Stewart C. Baker, Western Oregon University
- Abstract
As online instruction becomes more widespread, librarians will need to understand how to create effective web-based learning resources that can be accessed by students at any time. Although short video tutorials and traditional library web guides have a decades-long history, this presentation will focus on how to create interactive text-based resources that are part game and part self-serve instruction session. Rather than discussing 'gamification,' the presentation will explore Interactive Fiction (IF), a genre of text-based games, and will provide attendees with practical tools and tips to create their own interactive resource.
- Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
- articulate how interactive web-based resources can increase students' engagement and capacity to learn
- understand the basic concepts of interactive fiction
- locate and use interactive fiction authoring tools to create their own web-based learning resources
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