SCHOLA LUDUS interactive videos

The importance of complex dynamic systems approach in educational process is often underestimated. To understand complexity of dynamic processes, the process details need to be recognized and taken into account in a way of linear-causal thinking approach to a system thinking approach shift characterized by the “recognition of the mutual interactions of system components, the ability to distinguish between micro and macro levels of analysis and the understanding of system's emergent property” (Raia, 2005).

In the frame of SCHOLA LUDUS approach to physics education via attractive complex processes and many years of experience with interactive, live exhibitions as our stimulating-strategy-activity to later serious physics learning and teaching (Matejka, 2009), an idea of bringing the real, interactive exhibits online together with the possibility of playing with them (or at least a solid alternative to playing with them) to study the running processes in their complexity and their details arose. And so, the user’s interaction with the real content of, otherwise, an interactive video has been, to a great extent, ensured.

The essence of SCHOLA LUDUS interactive videos (SLIV) - specially designed objects taking advantage of flash format as a widespread multimedia format - lies in zoom function enabled in videos online without a need to install any other software into a computer enabling a user to focus on any part of the running complex dynamic process. User gains an experience similar to that gained by direct observation of real objects by, e.g., changing the observation distance in any time of the running process. This possibility alone supports recognition of process details, which are usually not noticed during direct observation without any instructions. In this sense, the interactive videos seem to be a high quality alternative to real observation of real objects and processes.