Forward-looking HR executives and chief learning officers know that their job is not only about facilitating the delivery of operational knowledge to their organization’s employees, consultants, and suppliers. They also realize that they can increase the overall operational efficiency and performance of their organization by identifying and leveraging the paid-for knowledge that has been neglected […]
A Note To My Fellow Teachers
Dear Teacher Colleagues, I hope that you are all enjoying a relaxing break before heading back to school next week. A little tip, if you want to stay relaxed, avoid the comments sections of news sites and blogs (particularly when it comes to education). I spent part of my break reading news stories about our […]
Forgetting Helps You Remember,That’s Why Spaced Learning Works
It turns out that forgetting is an essential part of learning. When learners (or educators) talk about “teaching to the test” and “cramming,” they are describing massed learning—attempting to learn and remember a mass of information in a single session or a few closely spaced sessions. That “learning” is measured by the learners’ ability to […]
Study Shows That Early Childhood Education Pays Big Dividends
Providing poor children with high-quality early childhood education – from birth through age 5 –according to a new study that followed participants for 35 years, results in adults who are healthier, earning higher incomes and less involved in crime. The study showed that a positive impact especially on boys and their families. Described by the […]
How To Learn Best?
It’s time for a very short quiz. Do you learn more – 1. Taking a walk across an abandoned car park Or 2. Studying for a required calculus test? Teachers, academics and most folks will probably choose #2. Even if we don’t like calculus, we are taking a required test. That’s gotta be important. Yet […]
You Never Got Taught in School This Lesson : How to Learn!
A paper published in Psychological Science in the Public Interest evaluated ten techniques for improving learning, ranging from mnemonics to highlighting and came to some surprising conclusions. The report is quite a heavy document so I’ve summarised the techniques below based on the conclusions of the report regarding effectiveness of each technique.If you want to […]
The Reason For Your Learners’ Agility Is More Important Than Your Own
I’ve covered agile software development methodologies in a favorable light from a journalistic perspective for a number of years, and last month at The eLearning Guild’s DevLearn 2016 Conference & Expo, I was thrilled to see Megan Torrance promoting the use of agile’s best practices in the training industry. The agile manifesto, compiled more than […]
Campus Sail’s Online Orientation platform
A brand new company in the EdTech space just released an online platform for new student orientation. Campus Sail’s Online Orientation platform fully integrates with a school’s existing system in order to automate the onboarding process. The company was born out of the higher education field. “Working at a college, we sat through countless hours […]
A Guide to Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality
Media enthuse about the latest gear or games employing virtual reality or augmented reality; scholarly treatises pontificate about how virtual reality and grounded reality interact. Then there’s something called mixed reality… It’s easy to get lost among the realities. Here’s a primer to sort out the terms and understand how each might apply to eLearning. […]
User-Centered Design and Universal Design-Buzzword Decoder
Both user-centered and universal approaches to eLearning design focus on the end user—the learner—in that they aim to improve the usability of the end product. The approaches differ, though, in that universal design is more conceptual and philosophical, while user-centered design is more process-focused. User-centered design User-centered design includes end users in every aspect of […]