Comixplain is proposed to promote student-centred teaching and learning. As students vary in their previous knowledge and preferences, we propose alternative didactic materials to cater to individual learning processes. We propose a novel storytelling-based strategy to engage students in learning complex scientific subjects through comics.
The effectiveness of comics in learning for both children and adults has been shown in many studies. However, many STEM topics have not yet been explored in depth. The power of comics in learning does not only come with their familiarity, but also from a unique combination of traits of the medium itself: They offer an engaging narrative structure as mostly seen in learning videos while keeping the freedom of 2D spatial layout as text, visualizations, and infographics do. This means that a reader can benefit from a friendly, linear presentation and continuously keep the overview of the subject (as opposed to rewinding a video), and while having full control over the reading speed.
In the last years, especially due to distance learning, we saw the importance of engaging supplementary material for students at the university. Our hypothesis is that comics can be used to effectively understand, review, or provoke the discussion of complex subjects such as math, statistics, or physics. The goal of this project is to understand and identify which factors are related to the difficulty in learning such topics and how comics can contribute to the learning process.
See the results from Comixplain in our project page.
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The folder "Comixplain_Guide" contains instructions on how to design and adapt Comixplain comics.
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The folder "Comixplain_Editions" contains the main stories developed by the Comixplain team.
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The folder "Community_Contributions" contains derivatives promoted by the Comixplain team.
Please feel free to open Issues, submit Pull Requests, or just send us feedback at [email protected]
This project is licensed under the CC BY-SA license. This license allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, so long as attribution is given to the creator. If you remix, adapt, or build upon the material, you must license the modified material under identical terms. See the LICENSE.md file for details.
Victor-Adriel De-Jesus-Oliveira
Hsiang-Yun Wu
Christina Stoiber
Magdalena Boucher
Alena Ertl
Magdalena Boucher & Alena Ertl
Anna Blasinger
Comixplain is a project of the Institute for Creative\Media/Technologies (IC\M/T), developed at Sankt Pölten University of Applied Sciences (STPUAS) and funded by STPUAS' Innovation Call 2022.