Preparing Students for Interpersonal Communication: Project-based Learning in an Interactive Multimodal Learning Environment

This presentation describes how two interpersonal communication modules implemented similarly innovative research project designs using an interactive multimodal learning environment model to encourage students to explore real-world challenges within industry-specific contexts to gain deeper knowledge. The multi-modal tasks included blogs (verbal/visual), project pitches and team-based oral presentations (verbal/nonverbal/visual), as well as student-generated instructional videos (verbal/nonverbal/visual).