Questions & Answers are powerful teaching tools

1 February 2018

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Questions and Answers (Q&A) are a very powerful digital content teaching and learning tool.

In print textbooks Q&A tend to be exercises and tests and are rigidly formatted that way. With digital content Q&A presentation can be dramatically changed to create a more exciting engagement for the learner and can become learning tools.

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The Standard AIE Q&A Models

The AZARDI Interactive Engine supports ten types of Q&A to make creating learning content flexible and easy. It includes evaluation. If you get the right answer it lets you know. If you get the answer wrong it messages appropriately with optional reinforcing information.

The AZARDI Interactive Engine (AIE) was designed to make creating interactive teaching and learning content straight-forward in any/all languages, including multi-language environments. It has been used to create interactive learning in a wide range of Asian (scripts & logographs) as well as latin languages.

These are very different from most online Q&A approaches in that AIE Q&A uses a structured framework of HTML5 and CSS3 to which the Javascript is applied. This means the HTML and CSS can be easily customized and modifed on a question by question basis while retaining multi-language (alphabets, scripts and ideographs) accessibility. More on that later.

The AIE Q&A Modules

Here are the ten Q&A modules; Interactive and ready to go.

1. True False Simple

Pluto is the last planet in the Solar System.

True
False

Correct. Pluto is not a planet. It is now a Dwarf Planet.

No. Pluto is now classified as a Dwarf Planet.

Pluto was reclassified as a Dwarf Planet in 2006 by the International Astonomical Union (IAU).

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

True/False is regarded as the simplest Q&A type evaluating a binary option. It is a choice between two items.

2. Multi True False

1. Mars is the hottest planet?

True
False

2. Only Saturn has rings?

True
False

3. The gas planets are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?

True
False

Correct. You know a lot about the planets in the Solar System.

You missed that one. No problem. Click show answers. Remember the right answer and click clear answers. Come back and try again later. Play with your friends later and learn together.

1. The hottest planet is Venus even though it is not the closest to the sun.

2. Saturn has the easiest to see rings, but Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus also have rings.

3. A gas planet or gas giant is a large planet made up mostly of gases such as hydrogen and helium. They only have a small rocky core.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Multi True False allows a number of evaluations in one question set. It is a productivity option for publishers but also allows a deeper evaluation of a subject with binary choices.

3. Multi True False Inline

1. Mercury Mars is a red planet which is the second third fouth planet from the sun.

2. Saturn Jupiter Uranus Neptune is the last planet in our Galaxy Universe Solar-system. It comes after Venus Jupiter Uranus Saturn.

3. Neptune is named after a Roman god. Neputune was god of the sky stars moon sea trees clouds.

Well done. You know your planets, the Universe AND a bit of ancient Roman religion. Keep learning.

Something isn't quite right. Click show answers. Study. Then try again.

Remember the order and colours of the planets. It's not easy but learning them puts you on the path to being the world's greatest astronomer ever!

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Multi True False Inline was designed for language teaching and testing but can be used for anything. You can create as many options as you like.

4. Multi Choice

1. Which is the largest planet in the Solar System?

Uranus
Jupiter
Saturn
Venus
Neptune

Yes. You know your planets.

Not this time. Click try again. When you get the right answer do the Planet dance.

Remember the name of the company we have been talking about earlier in the lesson.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Multi-choice is the standard second level Q&A after True False. It has multiple answer options only one of which is correct.

5. Multi Response

Which planets don't have moons.

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars

Yes. Just two planets don't have moons. All the rest have plenty.

Remember just two planets don't have moons and here is a clue. They are the planets closest to the Sun.

All planets have moons except Mercury and Venus.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Multi Response requires the selection of more than one correct answer. It increases the engagement with the content.

6. Association

Do you know the colours of the planets? Associate each planet with it's colour. Don't worry if you get them wrong. Just show the answers, study them and try again until they are all correct.

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

Gray
Yellow
Blue
Red
Orange
Gold
Pale Blue
Light Blue

Powerful. Congratulations. Even Galileo didn't know that.

Try again. Click Show answers, study and then click try again.

This is really hard. Not many people can answer this question but you can. Keep trying.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Turning up the Q&A power, Association requires the correct matching of multiple items. The answers can be made with a drag and drop, click-click or tap-tap.

7. Sequence

Arrange the planets in order of size biggest to smallest:

Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Earth
Venus
Mars
Mercury

Correct. Well done.

You missed something in the size sequence apparent. No problem. Try Again.

Here is a clue: J S U N E V M M

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Try Again Notification The wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset Notification Your saved answers have been deleted.

Sometimes things just have to be in order. Sequence allows the learning and testing of items that have a natural order. The answers can be set with a drag and drop, click-click or tap-tap.

8. Text Match

Fill in the blank.

Earth is the planet from the Sun.

You know where we are in the Solar System.... the Third Rock from the Sun.

Missed. Try again.

Our position is a bit of an urban legend. When you get the answer correct you will see that.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

third, 3rd, 3, Third, THIRD

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Text Match requires the precise word to be entered into a phrase. But it is generous given mobile device keyboard hell. Here you can enter: third, Third, THIRD, 3rd or 3 and your answer will be correct.

9. Multi Text Match

What is the order of the planets from the sun?

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

The closest planet is .
The second planet is. .
The third planet is .
The fourth planet is .
The fifth planet is .
The sixth planet is .
The seventh planet is .
The eighth planet is .

Correct You know your Solar System very well.

It looks like you need to study this a little more. Look at the highlighted items and try again.

Think of the first letters and remember "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles". Then get those planet names in there

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Multi Text Match is the big brother of Text Match. It allows the creation, evaluation and learning of multiple matches in one evaluation.

10. Sort Word Multi

Rearrange the words sequentially to make correct sentence.

Jupiter is the largest planet.

You got it. You are the Guru of sentence structure.

Something is not in the right place. Try again.

You need to be thinking about a planet starting with the letter J.

Your score

Correct

Wrong

Jupiter is the largest planet.

200

-200

Try Again NotificationThe wrong answers have been cleared. You can now try them again.

Reset NotificationYour saved answers have been deleted.

Sort word multi is designed primarily for language learning. The learner can demonstrate their understanding of a language grammar by getting words in the correct sequence.

The Traditional Use of Q&A

Importantly AIE Q&A can be used for print books AND interactive e-books. This really matters in a lot of environments that don't have full Internet connectivity. Because of the tagging patterns AIE Q&A can be used for printable question papers, answer sheets and marking sheets.

Here are downloadable examples of that:

Printable Question Paper (PDF download)

Printable Answer Sheet (PDF download)

Printable Marking Sheet (PDF download)

Interactive EPUB 3. (EPUB3 download)

The EPUB 3 contains downloads for the PDF's as well. The important thing to understand is ALL the files have been created from the same master IGP:FoundationXHTML in IGP:Digital Publisher. Any edits or changes to the questions and answers are fully available in all formats; instantly.

This underlines the fact that with digital content production it is not just why and what you do, but HOW you do it that is very important.

QAA Sets

AIE Q&A goes a lot further than just having nine different Q&A options. The Q&As can be combined into Sets which makes them:

Available as student self-evaluated digital tests (as in the examples above) in an EPUB or as an Online self-test.
AND/OR submitted online for instructor evaluation as a formal test. (Semi-LMS).
AND/OR available as print tests if digital resources are not available, or in mixed digital/print environments.

And In Conclusion

AIE Q&A has the clear objective of empowering publishers to easily and affordably create learning and testing resources for learning/teaching environments in every country or region and in every language.

Article posted by Milan Bishwakarma and Richard Pipe

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