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Examples of Transmedia Already in Education

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Examples of Transmedia Already in Education

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Transmedia is already relevant in modern education, especially so in Tertiary/higher education. Many courses include weekly readings from textbooks and/or powerpoints, lectures to watch and follow, home assignments to further learning, videos and other readings from articles. However there is a downside to using these resources, as most of the time they are done in your own personal time, which can sometimes be foregone due to procrastination or laziness of students

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The important part of transmedia for educators is to focus more on the engagement of the students rather than the variety used. Within transmedia, students should have an ability to: search and distribute information, manage and analyse multiple streams of information, and represent ideas using a combination of images and text.

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There are many examples of transmedia in pop culture. A prevalent example in today's society is superhero stories. Companies such as Marvel and DC use transmedia to further the story telling of their characters. Both of these companies have released comic books, animated and live actions TV shows, movies, video games and more! Outside of superhero movies you can look at other series such as The Matrix which 3 live action films, a series of animated shorts, 2 comic books and several video games (Pence, H. 2012)

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Video Games

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Performances

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Blog

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Video

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Image

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Audio

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Dudacek, O. 2015. Transmedia Storytelling in Education. Retrieved from www.sciencedirect.com
Pence, H. 2012. Teaching With Transmedia. Educational Technology Systems, Vol 40. Retrieved from http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.2190/ET.40.2.d

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Transmedia can be described as the development of stories through multiple platforms, mainly those which are digital services. The most important part of transmedia being the influence it has on the audience, the most important of which are: participation, engagement, interaction and collaboration (Dudacek, O. 2015).