Video analysis, using the program Tracker (Open Source Physics), in the educational process introduces a new creative method of teaching physics and makes natural sciences more interesting for students. This way of exploring the laws of nature can amaze students because this illustrative and interactive educational software inspires them to think creatively, improves their performance and helps them in studying physics. This paper deals with increasing the key competencies in engineering by analysing real-life situation videos -physical problems -by means of video analysis and the modelling tools using the program Tracker and simulations of physical phenomena from The Physics Education Technology (PhET™) Project (VAS method of problem tasks). The statistical testing using the t-test confirmed the significance of the differences in the knowledge of the experimental and control groups, which were the result of interactive method application.

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The paper deals with innovative teaching methods at universities. The result of this effort is the interactive P&E method, whose main idea is the interactive work with students while solving problem tasks. The main aim of the given method is to change the students' position, by means of experiment analyses and qualitative tasks, from a passive to an active one. The aim of our continual research is the comparison of the study results reached in the teaching process using interactive methods with the study results reached in traditional teaching process. During the study the students took the pre-test and the post-test. From the results of the didactic test is possible to conclude that the use of interactive methods improves the students' results in these tests. The worst results are achieved, in the long term, in the tasks aimed at the specific and non-specific transfer.

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