Animated Video Clips: Learning in the Current Generation

The teaching and learning processes have undergone a variety of changes and modifications in recent years. The overall academic goal is to produce engaged, lifelong learners who are capable of solving complex problems in diverse settings. These desired skills cannot be achieved via the traditional teaching and learning model that requires students to be passive recipients of knowledge. Therefore, teachers must acknowledge that as traditional teaching methods lose their relevancy in educational settings, they must be willing to make radical changes to the way they conceptualize the teaching and learning process. As a practical suggestion to address the challenges of constructing new learning applications, this article describes an innovative use of animated video clips to help achieve desired learning outcomes.