Pedagogical innovation on interactive graphic animations: Case study of synaptic transmission - 1st year baccalaureate degree, life and earth sciences, Morocco

Abstract

To address the different learning styles of students, and because students can access animation from their computers, the use of animation in teaching has become increasingly popular. This paper reports aims to study the evolution of the conceptions of students in the first year of the baccalaureate, option life and earth sciences concerning the concept of synaptic transmission by using animation. This course covers many concepts that are difficult to teach and learn due to the impossibility of visualizing and manipulating in the real world. To achieve our objective, which is to study the impact of animations on students’ learning, we worked with two groups, a control group with which we chose the traditional method of using textbooks and an experimental group with which we used interactive graphic images and animations as teaching tools. The results showed that the learners in the experimental group, who received the course in an innovative way, performed better than the learners in the control group who used traditional teaching tools.

Keywords

• Teaching and learning process
• Graphic animation
• Static image
• ICT
• Innovation