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His bed was set against the window. The caretaker had laughed when he said that he liked to look outside his window the first thing in the morning. “You don’t know what’s outside that window or you won’t be so sure,” the grizzly old man had said in a voice that shook with age, and with mirth. Vineet...
How is instructional design related to elearning, training, and technical writing? This oft-repeated question requires a detailed answer. Whether you are a technical writer, an elearning content developer, or a trainer; you need to understand how the knowledge and application of instructional design could strengthen your skill-base and help you establish yourself as true content professional. It’s easy to...
Most trainers have excellent…almost magnetic personalities. They look confident, they speak well, and they have the ability to lead their training groups into great learning experiences. These competencies however are behavioral and have been developed through years of practice. As any good trainer has developed these competencies over many years and they all are quite good at what they...
The ARCS Model for Learner Motivation Coffeebeans is clamoring for our attention. She’s got something to say about Perceptual Arousal, which is one of the techniques to gain the learner’s attention. We are listening, Ms. Coffeebeans! John Keller’s ARCS model establishes 4 parameters for motivating the learner. A: Attention R: Relevance C: Confidence S: Satisfaction According to Keller, the...
Previous Posts in this series: The Anatomy of an eLearning Course The Creators of an eLearning Course An Enigma called the eLearning Project Manager What is the Role of a Subject Matter Expert in the Process of eLearning Development? In my previous post on eLearning, I had made an attempt to demystify the role of a Project Manager. This...
Training Evaluation is a mystery yet unresolved. What is it that defines training effectiveness? How practical is the Kirkpatrick Model of Training Evaluation? or… does it all boil down to this? Conclusion: A training is successful when all your objectives are met. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin...
Why Jason Changed? “It’s not real,” the man holding the sack over the prisoner’s head whispered to his companion who had the knife pressed to the prisoner’s throat. “I know, John,” said his companion in a steady voice, “but if it doesn’t look real, we don’t get paid.” It was difficult to read the expression of John, whose face...
In the previous posts on this topic, we discussed the advantages that eLearning offers to organizations and the challenges that they face while implementing elearning. We are now ready to drill deeper into eLearning and understand what it constitutes, because only if we do so we would realize why developing an elearning application is so different from developing other...
Froth and her cat meet Sloth for lunch. So though Froth’s program managed the first three parameters of the ARCS Model of Learner Motivation, it failed to Satisfy the learners…or so thinks Britney, the cat. Blog this! Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Recommend on Facebook Buzz it up Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace share via...
Active Learning Active learning refers to the methods that engage or involve learner in the learning – thus, moving from the plain old lecture-based sessions to more interactive and collaborative ones. (Charles C. Bonwell and James A. Eison, 1991). Thus Active Learning methods call for activities that initiate and build learner activity in a classroom. Such methods would take...
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