Any professional eLearning designer would agree that users are always at the heart of what they do. The bulk of our articles last year focused on users. But what about designers themselves? Who are they? What impressive feats do they perform? What skills do they possess? How crucial is their role in developing educational materials for a new generation of learners? Let’s not forget about these oft-overlooked professionals who help make eLearning possible, personal, effective and immediately app
1922 - Max Wertheimer, Kurt Koffka and Wolfgang Köhler introduce Gestalt Psychology. Check the Instructional Design Models and Theories: Gestalt Psychology article and presentation to find more.
We can learn when we are able to create new memories, store them and recall them when needed. If we want to help our students to learn efficiently, we should know something about functioning of our memory. Human memory is the center of the cognitive learning theory.
The most effective ways to help learners build a web of understanding and quickly catch on to new concepts is through the use of analogies in eLearning.
Over time we are changing the way we interact with information. We are becoming pullers of information rather than accepting that which is pushed to us. A further extension of this behavior is our taste for succinct information (or the lack of waffle).