Google Brings Us Yet Another Useful Free Tool – Meet Oppia

Oppia helps anyone create online interactive activities that others can learn from. Called explorations, these activities can be built and contributed to by multiple people from around the world through a Web interface, without any programming required.

Here is how Google describes Oppia:

[quote style=”boxed”]Oppia does this by modeling a mentor who poses questions for the learner to answer. Based on the learner’s responses, the mentor decides what question to ask next, what feedback to give, whether to delve deeper, or whether to proceed to something new. You can think of this as a smart feedback system that tries to “teach a person to fish,” instead of simply revealing the correct answer or marking the submitted answer as wrong.[/quote]

There is also a YouTube video:

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Features:

• Learners receive personalized, customizable feedback after submitting answers
• Explorations are embeddable in any webpage
• An online analytics dashboard that allows explorations to be improved easily over time
• A full online editor GUI
• A comprehensive extension framework allowing straightforward integration of new interactions and classification rules
• Parameters can be associated with a learner in order to create a richer interactive experience
• Collaborative creation and editing of explorations with version control
• (in progress) Responsive UI for mobile devices

To get a sense of what you could use this for, you can visit the demo site: https://www.oppia.org/learn