What is an Assessment Rubric? Before I explain this apparently bulky term, let us answer the following two questions. Question 1. What is 2 + 2 =? 52 4 -24 2 Question 2. Illustrate the foot-in-mouth disease with two examples…
Training Success and Meeting the Objectives!
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…
Flash Fiction – Obedience Nightmares and Roleplay Realities
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…
The Anatomy of an eLearning Course
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…
Froth Experiments with Learner Motivation.
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.
The IDEAL – Topic: Active Learning
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…
Past Experiences, Schema-building, Pattern-Recognition, and…?
Look at the following string of numbers and letters. 82TT9JXDUQNE Does it remind you of something? Yes? What does it remind you of? If you were born in 1982, it’s possible that the first thing that comes to your mind…
The IDEAL – Topic: The Algo-Heuristic Method
The Algo-Heuristic Theory or the Algorithmic – Heuristic Theory defines three types of instructional rules. Descriptive rules – describe what the process is. Prescriptive rules – describe what should be done. Permissive rules – provide alternatives to the prescriptive rules.…
A Short Story – Dushyant & Shakuntala – Why Love kills Logic?
Shakuntala absently rotated the ring that Dushyant had given to her with his undying promise of love. She couldn’t think of a reason why Dushyant won’t keep his promise, unless of course, he didn’t really care for her. She tried…