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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.
Why is interaction so important in education? It is the key to learning, especially when you are using technology, preventing students to be passive thus engaging them to be active. Interaction requires the student to work with learning content. Interaction is needed for navigation and exploration of learning content, to get feedback after assessment, but communication with peers or teachers is the ultimate interaction.
Imagine that you have a lot of different learning resources including videos, articles, recorded lectures that are useful for your learning topic, but not entirely usable. Why distracting students with irrelevant information, by putting everything in some sort of a library? Or why creating everything from scratch?
Students shouldn’t only be listeners. They should also interact with learning content. Quiz is one of the possible interactions that gives great results for long-term knowledge. There are four basic types of questions: multiple choice, single choice, true/false and fill in the blanks. As I’ll explain, these types serve slightly different purposes, but the main purpose of all quizzes is assessment.
Focus on sense making, not on seek and share!
Invest time to help your student and promote students’ curation.
Invest time to help your student and promote students’ curation.
You have probably already been in a situation, when your learners have complained over the quantity of content included in a course. Or you as an instructional designer are trying hard to convince your client, that there is much more than just transfer of information. You have tried different ways to avoid creating information-heavy courses, haven’t you?
One of the possibilities to help you design much cleaner, effective and targeted e-learning is a Learning Map.
One of the possibilities to help you design much cleaner, effective and targeted e-learning is a Learning Map.
Key differences which will help you decide when to use mind map and when a Learning Map in e-learning.
A Learning map is neither a self organizational tool nor a collaboration tool. So what exactly is a Learning map and why should we use it? Check 5 main characteristics of a Learning map.
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