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A video lecture the learner can stop and question.

Your instructor or your expert teaches on screen. The learner can pause to ask a question, and the lecture can pause to ask one back. Beside it, an AI teaching assistant answers from the course.

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On screen
Your instructors or your experts
Questions
Asked by the learner, or put to them
Updates
From the script, no reshoot
Where it runs
Any LTI-compliant LMS
Why it works

It works like a live class.

A recorded lecture cannot be interrupted, and it never asks anything back, so attention drifts and questions go unasked. This one can be stopped, and it stops to ask.

A lecture in Alma. On the left the lecture plays: a slide titled What Comes First, with the lecturer in the corner. On the right is the chat with the AI tutor, where the learner has asked what to include in the project description and the tutor has answered from the slide.

The learner stops it to ask

They pause at any moment and type a question. The answer comes from the course and refers to the slide they stopped on, so a question is answered when it comes up, not a week later or never.

It stops to ask the learner

At moments chosen in the design, the lecture pauses and puts a question to them, as an instructor calls on someone in a live session. Nobody can sit through it on autopilot.

The answer becomes a conversation

The AI teaching assistant replies to what the learner actually wrote, then asks one more question to check that the idea has landed. An exchange, not a quiz.

For your instructor or expert

The lecture is in their own face and voice, and it changes from the script.

Their own face and voice

The lecture shows your instructors or your experts, in their own face and voice, with their written agreement. The script and the points where the lecture stops are open to their review before a learner sees them.

Updated from the script

Faculty or experts who choose to can record once. When the material changes, the lecture is updated from its script, without going back into the studio.

What they can see

They can open any learner's progress and see what the AI teaching assistant said.

Where it fits

A lecture can sit anywhere in a sequence.

It can open a topic, set up practice, or explain a case after the learner has worked through it. Three examples, with the lecture in a different place each time.

To understand a concept

  1. Interactive lecture
  2. Reading
  3. Knowledge check
  4. Reflection

The lecture introduces the idea and the reading goes deeper. The knowledge check shows what stuck, and the learner then puts it in their own words.

To build a skill

  1. Knowledge check
  2. Interactive lecture
  3. Practice conversation
  4. Scored simulation

A short check finds what the learner already knows, and the lecture fills the gap. They try it in a practice conversation before a simulation that counts.

To learn from a case

  1. Dramatized case
  2. Discussion
  3. Interactive lecture
  4. Assignment

The learner meets the situation first and argues it out with others. The lecture then names the idea behind it, and the assignment puts it to use.

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What pairs well with a lecture.

Knowledge checks & learning games

The quick check before or after a lecture. It can play as a game.

See knowledge checks

Practice conversations & simulations

Where the learner tries what the lecture taught, out loud, with an AI character who pushes back.

See practice conversations

Dramatized cases

The scene a lecture can explain after the fact.

See dramatized cases

Bring one lecture you already give.

Book a demo and bring a slide deck or a recording. We build an example from your own material, at no cost, before you decide.

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