Adaptable Instructional Images versus Adaptable Instructional Video: Comparison of the Two Methods of Instruction and Results of a Post-Research Survey

The purpose of this paper is to compare the use of two methods of instruction where adaptable multimedia content is used in teaching an informatics course (spreadsheets, to be more specific). One method makes use of adaptable instructional images, meaning that the images used in the learning material change according to students´ preference. The second method makes use of adaptable instructional video in a similar way to the images. In these methods we choose to change (adapt) the volume of the used media, but we do not change the type of media. Both methods had been applied to high school students in two different experiments conducted and this paper gives a comparison of the two experiments as well as the results of a post-research survey among the students (subjects) of the two experiments. Statistical analysis and results are given as well as the explaining of these results.