MULTIMODAL INTERACTIONS IN MVP VIDEO LESSONS IN AN EXCLUSIVELY ASYNCHRONOUS FORMAT
multimodality; video lesson; interaction; e-learning; MVP; Youtube.
This research investigates interactions, from a multimodal perspective, within a video lesson produced with minimal editing resources (Minimum Viable Product - MVP) and offered exclusively in an asynchronous format. The study was motivated by the researcher's own practice as a professor and content creator within a distance education institution that adopts an exclusively asynchronous model. How can interaction be facilitated in a model where there is no synchronous contact between teachers and students? Suspecting that such interaction might lie within aspects of language, the author turned to multimodality (Kress, 2010; Burn, 2014; Kress & Bezemer, 2016) as a theoretical framework to explore these potential interactions. A search for similar studies in major academic research databases did not identify any research that focused on interaction and multimodality in exclusively asynchronous video lessons. The object chosen for analysis was a video lesson available on a YouTube channel dedicated to academic research. The choice of this platform was based on its relevance in the social practice of using it for learning purposes. It was also chosen for its open access and the characteristic restriction of YouTube, where there is no synchronous interaction between the video creator and the viewer. The intention of this research is to make visible the semiotic resources that teachers can use in their video lessons, even those produced with minimal resources. Independent online teachers, in particular (Mattar, 2019), often lack the infrastructure to produce video lessons in the same way as traditional distance education institutions. This is qualitative, documentary, descriptive, and exploratory research.