Criticisms from adults about the quality of student-generated content are unfair, because up until now, all theories and assumptions are mostly drawn from youth engagement in entertainment and gaming contexts, and not from educational contexts. Generalizing that a set of raw behaviors in one context would automatically define another is hardly grounds to impede the momentum of user-generated content.
Here are some specific steps and tips to guide and help employees, students and consumers develop the particular skills they learn through eLearning. Learning and developing knowledge both theoretical and working and skills is a process. Both first timers and veterans can use this set of pointers.
There are, no doubt, times when you should buy (purchase off the shelf) rather than build (custom develop) your company’s training. However, the times when you should build rather than buy are more often than you might think. Typically, your offerings will be a blend of the two. You should consider building your company’s training rather than buy it when…
When you have an important change to communicate with eLearning, your first instinct may be to make that eLearning compulsory. Fight that instinct! Giving in to it can damage the effectiveness of your learning solution and turn your learners against you. This article outlines the key reasons to avoid compulsory eLearning, and some alternatives that will still help you get your message across.
Do you think about the impact of tiredness and fatigue on learning? What effect could these have on your training design? Well, unless you can regulate your learners' sleep patterns, tiredness may seem a little beyond your control. For fatigued learners the challenge is to pique their interest, so that a subject becomes fascinating. However, there are a couple of useful thoughts.
Success of Large organizations depends on their ability to keep information flowing across their departments so that it can reach the appropriate people at the right time. People have the ability to learn at every moment. The firm’s ability to assess, improve, motivate, and maintain their employee’s knowledge, actively affects the ability of the organization to succeed.
Do you want to engage your students and encourage them to participate more actively? Plenty of Free iPad apps are now available to save you precious time and get your work done, while impressing your students and keeping their interest alive. Below you will find the Top 10 FREE iPad apps for teachers.
Organizing learning as collections of short educational episodes is a trend that is getting more and more attention from corporates. While educational episodes do not provide a complete context and do not provide a complete background in the same way as a full course could do, they are particularly effective in delivering “ just enough” or “just-in-time” information, and are often more easily accepted by employees than larger and more time-consuming courses.
Is it wrong to compare technology in education with the Six Million Dollar Man? There really is an important blend of human and technological components that make the system work. The question is how to make it best work for teachers.
The purpose of this article is three-fold: (a) to define written feedback and identify the benefits of effective written feedback (b) to identify the components of an effective written feedback, and (c) to provide an acronym that reminds instructors of the importance of giving effective written feedback for their students.
Do you check your email before breakfast? Ever feel like your online class is taking over your life? Online instruction does operate at its own schedule, but the schedule should not control you. Here are some time saving tips for the online teaching environment.
The article dwells upon the creative ways in which you can use mind mapping to develop children's verbal, logical, visual, and intrapersonal intelligences. Children can become smarter and wiser, from different perspectives, if we seek to help them nurture and refine their intelligences. Parents and teachers altogether can use mind maps to engage their kids in fun, exciting activities that will have multiple benefits for their personal development.