The survey of design, implementation process and evaluation of educational animation

Animation is one of the most interesting visual phenomena educating scientific realities as descriptive and in the form of imaginary stories to the learner. Providing the scenario and selecting effective characters in an educational animation can facilitate the education of complex and abstract concepts. Today, there is some software to provide 2-D, 3-D and probe-based animations facilitating the complex operation of providing animation. Animation affects sight and hearing senses for better and rapid learning of the concepts. The researchers by being inspired of learning theories can present suitable theoretical basics to increase the abilities of animations in learning and teaching process. To provide and produce effective animation in education, we should consider design, execution and evaluation of educational animations. Thus, the main purpose of this study is to determine a good structure to provide an effective educational animation. This study was done by quality method and Delphi method was used for data collection. In this method, the comments of specialists were collected for three stages and after the conclusion was presented in a checklist with 23 items in general stage of design, 59 items in special stage of design, 6 items in production and execution stage and four items in evaluation of the animation. The review of literature of the previous studies on key points was determined in this study to consider in design, execution and educational animation evaluation process. In this study, the concept of educational animation and its characteristics, learning-teaching theories and the studies are determined and the conclusion and discussion are presented in this regard. [Zahra Jamebozorg, Mohammad Salimi. The survey of design, implementation process and evaluation of educational animation. Life Sci J 2012; 9(4): 4740-4749] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 712