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Figure 2 Screenshot of an EdX course [8]
On the left side of the screen there is a bar that contains all of the material for the
courses categorized into weeks and then subcategorised under topics. Each topic will
open a video as is shown in Figure 2. There are several options to make the experi-
ence more interactive; the video is divided into chapters, each of which can be ac-
cessed from the top bar above the video for quick access to topics. To the right of the
video is a teleprompter style scrollable text that displays all of the lecturers’ spoken
words as an interactive subtitle. Each section is clickable and by clicking the text the
video player will find that exact sentence in the video and start the playback from said
point in time. EdX has also incorporated the possibility to download the video, subtitles
and even the slides for each lesson, making the most of the technology available to
them and incorporating it into their service, thus creating an enjoyable eLearning expe-
rience.