Teaching complex scientific concepts in an engaging manner is challenging for educators. Animated videos can explain concepts and engage students by combining audio messages with changing graphics. Whiteboard animation is a specific style of animated videos where the content appears to be hand-drawn on a school whiteboard and narrated in a storytelling manner. This technique has all the benefits of traditional animations, with an added ability to combine visual thinking and storytelling. Whiteboard animations were successfully applied to explain health-related topics. Creating a successful whiteboard animation requires paid software, time, and drawing skills. Most whiteboard animation software is designed for business advertising and does not provide the graphics gallery needed to explain health science-related topics.

Authors: Nazlee Sharmin, Ava K Chow, Mike Carbonaro

Published in: Canada International Conference on Education, 2024

• Date of Conference: 23-25 July, 2024
• DOI: 10.20533/CICE.2024.0044
• Electronic ISBN: 978-1-913572-65-5
• Conference Location: Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Canada