With the widespread adoption and rapid advancement in the capacities of smartphones (mobile phones with an operating system capable of running applications), more technically advanced interventions, including multiple modes of interactivity and opportunities for engagement with consumers, patients, and beneficiaries of health programs, are now possible [ 3- 5].
Reasons for improved learning outcomes include guided instructional formats with customised feedback, increased exposure to threshold concepts [ 8], increased student interactivity, increased student opportunities for practice, customised remediation and revision, as well as the potential to reduce redundancy and split attention both of which can lead to cognitive overload [ 22].
For nonreviewing viewers, interactivity is an opportunity for fun, creativity, intimacy with the talent, exposure to advertising and giveaways and community.
Or, said another way, digitizing a lecture or presentation isn't enough; there is still plenty of room for improvement when it comes to the way these tools create opportunities for interactivity, dialogue and feedback.
Some ingenious designers have created dazzling displays and breathtaking layouts, many with ample opportunities for interactivity.
There's more opportunity for interactivity, user-submitted content, and live audience interaction.
Participants in the Web 2.0 condition will still have access to self-monitoring features and information and educational resources, however, these will have advanced functionalities (eg, status updates, internal emails, requesting 'friends', personalised profile pages) providing opportunities for greater interactivity and participatory communication between users.
The Internet has a great potential to improve health literacy by means of e-learning, which includes different forms and methods of learning and teaching supported by ICT., This is a promising tool for improving health literacy, as it removes barriers of time and distance, promotes interactivity and learning-on-demand opportunities and reduces costs.
This leads us to conclude that the interactivity of the modules, with the opportunities they offer for conceptual change and reinforcement, provided clear learning benefits for the Group 1 <80% subgroup students.
In contrast, Web-based formative assessments offer clear advantages for students: immediacy of feedback; flexibility in time and place of undertaking the assessment; feedback can provide links to learning resources, thereby providing motivation to study; opportunity for repetition; and interactivity [ 11].
