- Animated characters add energy, character, and learner engagement to learning material. See a full presentation
- Avatars can point out and explain or summarize important material.
- Avatars focus learner attention on the material, increasing content engagement and retention.

A NOAH virtual character in your e-learning project can make a big difference!

• NOAH is a Flash component and can be integrated into a Flash-based course.
• Deliver an interactive face-to-face style of teaching that makes the learning experience more engaging.
• Deliver corporate training in a more interactive and entertaining format.
• Animated speaking characters can raise learner retention to as much as 60%.
• See important studies
  • from Stanford University: Benefits of Interactive Online Characters
  • from University of Toronto and University of Tokyo
• Increase a student’s learning potential by prompting them with specific questions.
• Summarize information, ensuring that a student has understood the basic concepts.
• Providing entertaining and informative positive feedback or encouragement.
• Provide flash cards, practice tests, and interactive scenarios to make a student’s learning experience more enjoyable.

By interacting with a character, students become more engaged in the subject matter, helping them learn more effectively.

Click these links to see a normal PowerPoint Presentation, then see the same PowerPoint enhanced with NOAH.

• NOAH can be integrated natively into any HTML course.
• This example adds a dimension of comedy and character to otherwise stodgy content.
• This course was made with Lectora.

• What NOAH can do for e-learning is limited only by the developer's imagination.
• NOAH can be powerful as a co-learner.
• Using multiple NOAHs in in a social scenario can provide an entertaining way to learn critical information and procedures.

• Trying to present your ideas when you aren't there can be very dull.
• NOAH can spice up virtual presentations.
• Have it point things out and serve as a cute help file.

See research about why NOAH learning agents work in elearning:

Adding Character to Online Learning
Improving the Usability and Effectiveness of Online Learning: Can avatars help?
Avatars in Learning
Benefits of Interactive Online Characters
Bringing Training to Life with Avatars
Pedagogical Agent Image
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