Evaluation of a course mediatised with Xerte
This is an incremental application of existing tools to improve educational content for students.
The researchers created an interactive multimedia English course using the Xerte authoring tool and tested it with students from a private school, finding positive reception based on questionnaire results.
Interactive multimedia educational content has recently been of interest to attract attention on the learner and increase understanding by the latter. In parallel several open source authoring tools offer a quick and easy production of this type of content. As such, our contribution is to mediatize a course i.e. 'English' with the authoring system 'Xerte' which is intended both for simple users and developers in ActionScript. An experiment of course is conducted on a sample of a private school's students. At the end of this experience, we administered a questionnaire to evaluate the device, the results obtained, evidenced by the favorable reception of interactive multimedia integration in educational content.