Here Are Ten Rules to Create Engaging Elearning At the recent ASTD conference, I was asked how to create engaging elearning. If you’ve been reading the Rapid E-Learning Blog for a while, then you know I’ve tackled this subject before. I decided to pull ten ideas that are fundamental to building good elearning courses. Rule 1: Don’t Create the Course This is probably not the advice your client wants to hear. Besides, many of the courses we create are just sharing information that’s already available in other places like the organization’s intranet or via job aids. Rule 2: The Course Needs to be Relevant to the Learner Most boring courses are the result of the content not being relevant to the learner. Also, consider that not all learners are created equal. The key to interactive courses is not multimedia, rollovers, or drag-and-drop interactions. Rule 3: Understand Your Objectives If all you’re trying to do is share information and track completion before December 31, then build a course that’s appropriate for those objectives. Tidbits:
Learning Inventories When teachers know how their students learn best, they can design instruction that benefits all students. Knowing their own learning profile can help students become better learners, because they will be able to adjust their interaction with new material in order to understand and retain it. Several learning inventories are included in the Getting to Know Students Packet on the main page. Below are some links to online learning inventories that students can take to find out how they learn best. Websites on Learning Inventories: Learning Styles Online.com Find Your Strengths Learning Style Inventory What's Your Learning Style? Abiator's Online Learning Styles Educational Inventories: Learning Style & Multiple Intelligence VARK: A Guide to Learning Styles
How Long Will We Wait to Give Students Choice? – A.J. JULIANI It’s 2017. Communication is changing fast (my 7-yr old daughter and I just exchanged Snaps while I am in Chicago and she is outside of Philadelphia in different time zones, with real-time interaction). Collaboration has evolved to a point of instantaneous feedback loops (my colleague and I are on a shared Google Slide presentation changing and adding to slides for this week’s presentation in real-time, able to modify and go back to old versions if need be. Critical Thinking has become a necessity in order to not only solve big problems, but every day issues (we know teachers learn best from other teachers, but it is increasingly harder to get teachers into each other’s room due to sub shortages and other factors. Creativity is a part of our everyday lives. Yes, those bolded terms are what we commonly refer to as “21st Century Skills”, yet I’m fairly certain that these were always NEEDED skills. Socrates was talking about these 21st century skills over 20 centuries ago. Self Control Wisdom
Bandura’s Social Learning Theory CSU Resources Here are some resources you may find helpful from the workshop. When you are in the classroom or teaching online, you may want to find new and interesting ways to engage students. Here is a course titled How to Increase Learner Engagement which provides ten great ideas for breaking away from the lecture and working toward engaging […] Continue Reading → A conversation with GamEffective The other day I had a chance to have a conversation with Roni Floman of GamEffective. Continue Reading → Screening of an Innovative Film Locally If you are in or around the Bloomsburg area….You might be interested in what is below: I’m happy to announce our screening of a new documentary that takes audiences into three innovative public schools where students are taught HOW to think rather than WHAT to think. Continue Reading → A Conversation with Brandon Carson The other day I had a chance to catch up with Brandon Carson who contributes to our industry in so many ways. Continue Reading →
Nik's Learning Technology Blog: Why do so many Moodle courses suck? Moodle is a magnificent free product and has the potential to enable schools and teachers to build wonderfully unique interactive online learning courses in which learner interaction can be tracked, measured and responded to. Despite this the vast majority of Moodle courses I see are a long list of Word and PDF documents with at best a few forums that enable a minimum of human social interaction. Given the state of many of these courses, it’s no wonder that drop out rates for online learning are so high. And of course Moodle isn’t the only culprit. Many of the other commercially available LMS (learning management systems) and VLE (virtual learning environment) platforms aren’t doing any better. Moodle has been around now since 2002 and research carried out in 2013 showed that more than 7.3 million students had studied in more than 83 thousand registered sites. The problem surely isn’t Moodle, because the platform is capable of delivering all of the above. How about ready made courses? Best
Comment dynamiser une formation à distance? Participant à une formation en ligne, je constate que les échanges entre participants sont difficiles. En reprenant une liste de conseils proposée par Luc Legay, j’arrive sur trois pistes qui me paraissent intéressantes pour dynamiser une formation à distance : valoriser les productions des participants, présenter l’alignement de la formation et chercher à développer la convivialité entre les participants. Je suis actuellement la formation eLearn² (formation au e-learning, en e-learning) : c’est l’occasion pour moi de voir que même les pros ont parfois du mal à dynamiser des personnes qui se sont pourtant inscrites volontairement. Afficher l’objectif de la communauté : ça c’est clair : c’est une formation, on a le planning et le contenu.Offrir de vrais motifs de participation aux membres : là, c’est clair pour le suivi général de la formation, est-ce clair pour la participation de chacun ? Et vous, qu’en pensez-vous ? Like this: J'aime chargement…
Instructional Strategies Online "What children learn depends not only on what they are taught but also how they are taught, their development level, and their interests and experiences.... These beliefs require that much closer attention be paid to the methods chosen for presenting material..." Understanding the Common Essential Learnings, Saskatchewan Education, 1988. (p.10) "The last decades of research in human learning have presented new insights into the ways that learners are active in constructing their own understanding.
What is Personalized Learning? Advances in technology and personalized learning environments have created a historic opportunity to expand access and boost achievement and completion for learners across the globe. With student-centered, personalized learning, we can identify students’ unique needs and address them. Teachers possess powerful tools to personalize instruction and utilize real-time data for feedback to intervene exactly where each student needs it most. It is about optimizing learning every day and maximizing the amount of learning per unit of time. Students also amass a collection of evidence that demonstrates their learning. As an emerging and evolving field, it is essential to clearly define personalized learning to avoid confusion and frustration. Personalized Learning, Defined Each year, iNACOL surveys thousands of educators to inform and push our understanding of the field. The purpose of personalized learning is to open student pathways and encourage student voice and choice in their education.
Failure is an Option: Helping Students Learn from Mistakes May 16, 2011 By: John Orlando, PhD in Teaching and Learning Failure is one of the best teachers. Most of what I learned about home maintenance I learned from my mistakes. The military understands the benefits of failure and actually gives soldiers tasks that they know will lead to failure at some point as a part of their training. But instead of using failure as a valuable teaching tool, education discourages it as, well, a sign of failure. One way to reverse this trend is by using gaming in education. We must also rethink the purpose of grading itself. I asked him how this could square with this reputation for toughness. This story proves wrong the view that low grades are a sign of rigor. We learn to write by making mistakes and correcting our mistakes. Consider how to incorporate failure into your teaching in order to generate success. Feedback As usual, I encourage your comments, criticisms, and cries of outrage on the blog Recent Trackbacks [...] not the journey ahead. [...] [...]
Reality check - Open Source LMS: a costly affair Open source LMS is the one that is freely available with an open source code. This precisely means that you have access to the code for free and you can modify it to gain a high level of customization to suit your requirements. Since Moodle is the most popular, let us consider it during this analysis. Let us look at the actual costs upfront to set-up and recurring costs for running a professional grade Moodle installation on an ongoing basis. For the purpose of this example, let us look at a total user-base of 3,000 users in a year with an expected traffic per month – not more than 500. The good news: freeing yourself from paying off the license fee is a good decision. However, to run your system, you need more than just a code. Additional Open Source LMS Cost elements The costs we have considered above are conservative so that we don’t have a bias! If you consider a conservative 75,000 USD salary for yourself (given that you know PHP/MySQL, Web-design and server administration!)
L’innovation en formation est d’abord pédagogique et non technique. De l'ingénierie pédagogique dans les mondes virtuels. Par Jacques Rodet L’innovation est toujours relative à une transgression de l’habituel. Toutefois, transgresser les «règles» sans les connaître et les maîtriser, revient à se donner l’assurance d’arriver à peu près à n’importe quoi. Ce constat est également valable pour l’innovation pédagogique. Ainsi, aménager des espaces de formation dans les mondes virtuels ne peut correspondre à la simple réalisation d’objets et de leur assemblage tout en ignorant les principes de l’ingénierie pédagogique. Sans intention pédagogique explicitée, l’environnement de formation, même immersif, ne peut se suffire à lui-même. Penser l’ingénierie pédagogique Afin d’avancer dans notre réflexion, il me semble utile d’utiliser les modèles d’ingénierie pédagogique dans des champs voisins des mondes virtuels, à savoir les formations multi-médiatisées et offertes à distance. Si j’ai évoqué ma pratique d’ingénierie pédagogique, c’est bien plus à titre d’illustration que de volonté prescriptive. Le scénario tutoral (cf.
The Differentiator Try Respondo! → ← Back to Byrdseed.com The Differentiator The Differentiator is based on Bloom's Taxonomy, Kaplan and Gould's Depth and Complexity, and David Chung's product menu. Try It In: French Dutch • Tweet It • Like Byrdseed • Pin It Students will judge the ethics of the [click to edit] using a textbook and create an essay in groups of three. Revised Bloom's Taxonomy adapted from "A Taxonomy for Learning,Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives" by Anderson and Krathwohl Depth and Complexity adapted from The Flip Book by Sandra N. Depth Big Idea Unanswered Questions Ethics Patterns Rules Language of the Discipline Essential Details Trends Complexity Multiple Points Of View Change Over Time Across the Disciplines Imperatives Origin Convergence Parallels Paradox Contribution Key Words Consequences Motivations Implications Significance Adapted from David Chung and The Flip Book, Too by Sandra N. Group Size One Two Three Four