Interactivity Check

Place your own content on the model

Answer four statements about one piece of content you already own. This page then says where that content sits on the Interactivity Maturity Model. It also says what the next level would take. Bring one real module, chapter or video, not the whole course.

Four statements about one piece of your content

How the placement is madeThe four statements are the four gates between the five levels. You answer them in order. Your content sits at the lowest gate it fails. That holds even when a later statement is true. So an experience that adapts, but asks nothing of the learner, is still level 2. Answer for one real module, chapter or video.

Tick every statement that is true of the piece of content you have in mind

The learner has to do somethingWould reach level 2Reading, watching and listening are not doing. Tick this if the material stops until the learner acts.What the learner does produces a real end stateWould reach level 3A configuration that exists, a document that differs from the one beside it, a console left in a state somebody could inspect. If every learner finishes holding the same thing whatever they chose, leave this unticked.A wrong choice produces a wrong result, and the learner has to deal with itWould reach level 4Not a score and not a red cross. A result: something breaks, costs more, or fails the requirement, and the learner has to recover from it.What comes next is chosen from what this learner didWould reach level 5The next task, question or difficulty is selected from the record of this learner rather than from a fixed running order.

Placement

1Consumption

Information is delivered. The learner observes.

As described, your content is delivered and observed. It may be excellent content. Nothing in it is asked of the learner, so nothing about the learner comes back out of it.

To reach level 2, Participation

Give the learner something to do inside the material: an exercise, an activity, a question that has to be answered before the page moves on. At level 2 that is enough, and every learner will still finish holding the same thing.

The five levels, in full

The model names five levels. A team can then say where an experience sits today, and where it should sit next. Helix rests on one claim. The future of learning is interactivity, not more content.

1Consumption
Information is delivered. The learner observes.
2Participation
The learner engages through exercises and activities.
3Enrichment
Practice, feedback and consequence are layered onto content.
4Decision-Making
The learner shapes outcomes through choices.
5Adaptive Intelligence
The environment adapts to each learner in real time.

Which module lifts which level

No single module carries the whole model. Interactives does the lifting in the middle, where most content is stuck.

ParticipationHelix Labs and Helix StudioThe learner is given exercises and a place to do them.
EnrichmentHelix Labs and Helix InteractivesPractice, feedback and consequence are added to content the learner already has.
Decision-MakingHelix Interactives and Helix AssessConsequence design plus judgment-based assessment ask the learner to choose and then to answer for the choice.

What the placement is for

A placement starts one conversation. What would it take to write the wrong outcome for your material? What would that change for the learner who meets it? Helix Interactives is the module built for that step.

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