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

<p>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).</p><p><br></p>