Voki = fun!

Voki is such a great way to hook and engage students in learning experiences with potentially a wide variety of content. Learning Managers can present knowledge to students through this e-learning tool but it is also designed so that students can become hands on participants also. Students could create their own Voki's for a culmination of a unit where they present knowledge and skills learnt using this tool. It no doubt gives students opportunities to become enthusiastic but challenged learners.

Active learning is based on the theory that learners retain and transfer knowledge most efficiently through concrete activity-based experiences (2000). This involves input from multiple sources through a variety of senses. This is also linked to Marzano and Pickerings (1997) when they explain that Learning Managers should incorporate a variance of tools and resources in learning experiences to address all the senses. Voki is an excellent tool that students and Learning Managers can use alike as it allows them to use a majority of the senses in aid of increasing knowledge retention (2000).


Marzano & Pickering (1997). Dimensions of Learning. Pearson Education.
ACU Adams Center for Teaching Excellence. (2000) Active learning online. Retrieved July 29, 2009, http://www.acu.edu/cte/activelearning/whatisal.htm