Instructional Design

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December 25, 2016

5 Ways To Avoid Overwhelming Learners

We constantly hear of people suffering from information overload on social media. But we don’t realize that this can happen in a controlled environment too. What happens when we throw too much content at learners? Information overload. In this article, we talk about ways we can avoid overwhelming learners.
by Srividya Kumar
November 22, 2016

5 Ways To Make Learners Receptive To Learning

An important ingredient for a course to succeed is make students receptive to learning. How can we get this right, opening up their minds for the possibility of learning, and thereby making full use of what the course has to offer? Read on to find out.
by Srividya Kumar
November 21, 2016

6 Ways To Use Mistake-Driven Learning

We are fastidious about teaching learners all the right things. Do this, then do that, and then that. We don’t want to miss out on any point, lest they make a mistake. But what can mistakes teach us? Here is how to use mistake-driven learning by building mistakes purposefully into your courses and leverage them for teaching.
by Srividya Kumar
November 18, 2016

Memory And Learning, Part 2

Last month, I began a series of articles about knowing and using the constraints of perception and memory. Unlike some other constraints on learning interventions (such as time), there are no ways to get around memory. We either work with it or people learn less well (or not at all). Here is my second article discussing the relationship between memory and learning.
by Patti Shank, PhD