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In this new game, Classcraft, the more students do well in class, not only academically but by supporting their classmates' learning, the more they gain points by succeeding with real positive actions, such as bringing notes to an exam.
With more and more faculty being asked to teach blended or online courses, the need for faculty training has never been higher. Great summary of best practices in online teaching.
Challenges should be used in gamification to initially engage learners to start learning a task and to encourage learners who are reluctant to start to learn content. Often learners who are reluctant to learn content can be persuaded to begin the process by being challenged. This requires a careful balance as, in cases where a learner is overwhelmed with the content or feels that it is too difficult to even begin to learn, other methods need to be employed to engage the learner. These methods c
The best posts from the Rapid E-Learning Blog from the past year. This is one of my favorite sources of information and free templates!
While negative emotions tend to make us clearly remember data including the minutest detail, positive emotions tend to help us remember more complex things.
As the cliche goes, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. People decide what is beautiful in accordance with their own likes and dislikes. However, studies on what we find aesthetically pleasing find that in truth, there is a serious science to making things beautiful.
The secret recipe to a truly persuasive eLearning course is simple, at least in theory. Professionals in the fields of psychology, advertising, marketing and copywriting, have talked about some “rules” on how to persuade people. But all these rules lead us to two things: the human brain and human emotions. Note that these don’t just involve how people think and feel. They also include the subconscious mind and the unconscious mind of your learners.
The challenges eLearning professionals face daily are many and varied, and in many ways do not differ too much from the challenges any teacher may face when contemplating how best to hold the students’ attention.
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Portable devices are changing the way we read or consume content. That's a fact. And the novel of it is that people tend to read more on screen than on paper. Many of us, however, are still not comfortable with our changing reading behavior. As eLearning professionals and educators, it's our job to deal with these facts—not ignore or downplay them. If we really want people to pay attention to our eLearning content, it's not the reader who has to change. It's us, the authors.
Teachers are constantly looking for innovative ways to engage students in the classroom. As a result, new technologies are being introduced into the formal education setting that have opened doors in regards to the methods that a student is presented (and learns) new information.
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