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Perseus How to Create Engaging eLearning Content - LearnUpon Caroline | Posted on June 3, 2014 in Course Content, Success | No Comments eLearning courses come in various shapes and sizes, from pdf documents to video tutorials, so how can you ensure the content you create engages your learners? Here are some tips to help you prepare, create and deliver engaging online courses. Prepare Regardless of whether you’re creating your own content or you’re investing in an instructional designer to do so, you are going to have to outline a plan for your course content. Create You’ve finalised the course structure and identified the content you need so now it’s time to start creating that content. Deliver Before you rush to enrol learners make sure you test the course in different browsers with different user types to identify content related and technical issues. Finally eLearning course content is a moving target.
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The Simple Science of Creating Engaging eLearning Courses As eLearning professionals, we are constantly trying to figure out different ways to engage learners and challenge their understanding. We create attractive images, include games, quizzes, and develop different types of interactive activities in the hopes that most learners become interested in the material, but our job doesn’t stop there. Engaging learners goes beyond presenting interactive content; it is about designing truly motivating learning experiences. Engagement requires an emotional connection between the content and the learner. Anthropologist Dr. 1) Experience + Expectation = Engagement Findings show learning proceeds primarily from prior knowledge. Clearly define the course objectives (this is like setting a map before learners so they know where they intend to land). Engagement is shaped by previous experience and their expectation from that. 2) Captivate x Build = Engagement Afterwards, find the story in your content and let it follow a natural flow. Who cares?
Thunderbolt Kids | Grade 6 Home Read a Book Meet the kids Science Adventures Comics Natural Sciences and Technology Grade 6 Life And Living Matter And Materials Energy And Change Earth And Beyond Close PreviousNext PreviousMaximize Next Using Content Curation Tools to Engage Students When I was in college (for 12 years I might add) there were really only three sources of information available to students: 1) Instructor 2) Textbook 3) Library. This was not such a distant past. A mere two decades ago I finished my undergrad, and I graduated with my PhD in 2001. We live in the information age. For those of us raised in that distant galaxy two to three decades ago, or even further out, this is not so detrimental because we already have a solid context and construct from which to place all of this information. The abundance of freely available information also has changed the role of educators. One method to facilitate this process is to have the students contribute to the class content. TheHubEdu uses a shelf mechanism to organize content. Dr. Sign up today and get articles like this one delivered right to your inbox.
Open Educational Resources (OER): Resource Roundup Resources by Topic: OER, a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses -- free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. Why are OER important? High-quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort on resource development and advance student learning inside and outside the classroom. Getting Started Sharing Resources The nonprofit Creative Commons offers free, easy-to-use copyright licenses that allow you to specify which rights to your works you want to reserve and which rights you'd like to waive. Quality Considerations With all the promise of OER, some challenges remain. Back to Top How to Find OER Open Lesson Plans, Courses, and Activities 5-Minute Film Festival: 10 Sources for Free Lesson Plans, by Amy Erin Borovoy (2013) Exploring free lesson planning resources can be overwhelming. Open Alternatives to Textbooks
20 Twitter Hashtags Every Teacher Should Know About Twitter chats are such a great way to stay connected and informed in your professional circle, and education is no exception. Through education chats, you can find out about new methods for teaching, tech resources, even jobs for teachers. Most chats are held weekly, and offer an opportunity to have a regularly scheduled conversation with like-minded educators. Check out our collection to find a wealth of Twitter hashtags that are great for all kinds of educators. General These Twitter chats cover anything and everything in education, and represent a great jumping off point for those just getting started in Twitter education chats. #edchat – Talk to a variety of educators around the world through #edchat, Tuesdays at noon and 7 p.m. Administration and Behavior Check out these Twitter chats to get connected and discuss topics concerning school administrators. #AcAdv – Tuesdays from 8-9 p.m. Subject Chats
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LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks HippoCampus - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your algebra, biology, environmental science, American government, US history, physics and religion homework 10 Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers February, 2014 Social bookmarking is a new concept that has seen the light with the emergence of bookmarking services like the ones I cited below.Semantically speaking, ' social bookmarking' is made up of the the term " social " which is related to society and general interactions between people, and the verb " to bookmark " (used here as a gerund ending in ing) which has to do with recording and/or saving content for both later use and quick access. Weaving the semantic reference of the two words results in social bookmarking as we know it today : a collaborative and collective saving and sharing of web content.' Below are some of the best social bookmarking websites I would recommend to teachers and students. Have a look and let us know what you think of them on our Facebook page. 1- Diigo This is my favourite tool for socialbookmarking. 2- Livebinders This is another powerful tool for saving and organizing your bookmarks. 3- Scoop.it 4- Pinterest 5- Edshelf 7- Educlipper