The Voki experience

The Voki experience is valuable as an engaging tool to introduce learning. As the Voki only delivers the 'spoken word', it is a tool that is beneficial to audio and visual learners and promotes the learning of audio skills, oral fluency and technology skills. When evaluating the Voki using the learning framework of the Big 6 (Eisenberg & Berkowitz, 2001) it is useful in task definition particularly in online courses or on the homepage of a website, in defining the task and identifying the information needed to complete the task. For example defining the problem based learning: "the confectionery company has received a letter of complaint that the lolly packets have different amounts of lollies in them. The lolly packets are sold for the same cost. You are a quality controller for the company and you need to investigate this problem and report back to the company." This information can be put on an Avatar and spoken to the students. It is a tool that engages students with classroom tasks (Marzano & Pickering, 2006).