Here Are Ten Rules to Create Engaging Elearning. At the recent ASTD conference, I was asked how to create engaging elearning.
If you’ve been reading the Rapid E-Learning Blog for a while, then you know I’ve tackled this subject before. I decided to pull ten ideas that are fundamental to building good elearning courses. Rule 1: Don’t Create the Course This is probably not the advice your client wants to hear. But let’s face it; there’s quite a bit of elearning that’s just a big waste of time. Besides, many of the courses we create are just sharing information that’s already available in other places like the organization’s intranet or via job aids.
Rule 2: The Course Needs to be Relevant to the Learner Most boring courses are the result of the content not being relevant to the learner. Also, consider that not all learners are created equal. The key to interactive courses is not multimedia, rollovers, or drag-and-drop interactions. Rule 3: Understand Your Objectives. 21CTools - home. Ten Common Mistakes in Building an eLearning Strategy by Marc J. Rosenberg. “Get your people together and talk about this.
The stakes are high; make adjustments and set a better course. As the ancient Chinese proverb puts it, ‘If you don’t change your direction, you’ll end up exactly where you are headed.’” A basic building block of a successful and sustainable eLearning program is a solid strategy. Most organizations say they have one, but when you look under the hood there is often a lot of weakness.
An Introduction to Technology Integration. Edutopia have just released the video above to illustrate how effective technology integration is achieved when its use supports curricular goals. I'm always on the lookout for clips like this that may be helpful in my work with teachers, and like so many I've watched, this reminds me of how difficult it is for us as educators to constructively and effectively find the words to explain and describe what's being acheived with technology for a broad audience. All too often, however, our thinking about transformation is limited by the existing practices, structures and expectations of our schooling system, so that what actually occurs is more of a 'veneer' over what we currently do. This is reinforced for me by the next quote in the video which labels technology as 'just a tool' – and that it's what we do with it that we need to focus on. In and of themselves, these things aren't transformational – they're substitutional.
And the second… Movies to Develop Leadership in Educational Technology. As the year ends, I am republishing the Opinion Drive-thru's seven most viewed posts of 2013.
This is #1During the first meetings of my Leadership in Technology College of Education course (ED 6270) at Madonna University I have used some short YouTube movies for both the face-to-face and online versions of the course. Developing Professional Learning Networks This is a one minute movie about an Australian teacher training program that shows teachers the benefits in using Twitter. After watching it, my students-- all full time teachers-- wanted me to prepare a lesson on it as well. An Illustration of Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture. iPad Professional Development Lesson Plan (1.5 hrs) You may be responsible for conducting professional development or workshops on the use of iPad technology and may have developed your own teaching and learning plan.
The most difficult issue to address is the range of skills that are present within the group. 100+ Presentations for the Professional Development of Teachers. HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY INTEGRATE TECHNOLOGY INTO THE 21st CENTURY CLASSROOM – PART 1: WEB TOOLS. Today, there are many websites, tools, and resources that are readily available to us through the WWW.
In order to introduce these applications to our students and implement them into our classrooms, we need to know where to find them and how to use them. As educators we already know that every child learns differently, so providing various means to give our students the opportunity to express what they know and to use their imagination through innovation has become part of 21st century teaching, which every teacher should practice.
The New Way of Learning infographic by the Adidas Group gives us hints about why and how we should transform learning: The 13 MUST Know Professional Development Websites for Teachers. 1- Education World This is a great website that offers all the resources you need to grow professionally.
It has different sections with each one full of PDFs, books, articles an many more . 2- Discovery Education There is no way that you did not hear about this awesome website. Discovery Education provides high quality, dynamic, digital content to everyone be it a teacher, an administrator,student or even parents. 3- Staff Develop This is another great resource for professional development.It provides articles, books, workshops, and many resources links. 4- Ed Week. Should Teachers Have a Voice in Faculty Meetings? Leadership, Technology, Innovation, Learning. Digital Curriculum.
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