Infographics, simulations, and online courses

E-learning & Multimedia Journalism Examples Technology and tools for online learning Most institutions use technologies to make their courses more engaging and improve access to learning for students. As new technologies have become more reliable, viable and sometimes more affordable, they’ve brought exciting opportunities to reconsider how we teach, engage with or involve learners in different ways. Online learning offers institutions a way to take advantage of these opportunities, either for large scale distance learning courses or as an element of existing face-to-face courses. This guide considers a range of factors that contribute to ongoing capacity for online learning provision. It offers guidance, resources and case studies to support the development and use of technologies to support online courses and distance learning programmes. We also consider barriers and highlight actions you can take, illustrated with examples from institutions that have developed useful approaches to overcome them.

Optimal Video Length for Student Engagement Anant, Rob, and the rest of the edX leadership team have been wonderfully supportive of my research efforts. In addition, Anant and Rob have personally contributed to framing some of the questions that I investigated in my work. I plan to blog about my findings in the coming months. In this first post, I’ll share some preliminary results about video usage, obtained from initial analyses of a few edX math and science courses. Unsurprisingly, students engaged more with shorter videos. Traditional in-person lectures usually last an hour, but students have much shorter attention spans when watching educational videos online. The optimal video length is 6 minutes or shorter — students watched most of the way through these short videos. The take-home message for instructors is that, to maximize student engagement, they should work with instructional designers and video producers to break up their lectures into small, bite-sized pieces. By Philip Guo

MERLOT Online Courses Portal Creating Rapid E-learning Branching Scenarios Here’s a six-part screencast series demonstrating how to build branched e-learning scenarios in PowerPoint and Articulate Presenter. You’ll work with core features including branching, hyperlinking, slide masters and customizing player templates to create multi-path learning paths using Articulate Presenter. About the video workshop The idea was inspired by an Articulate community user looking to simulate loading unique content based on a learner’s selection. Navigation icons are included for learners to return to start screen or jump over to another learning path at any time. Also included is a small, visual map in top right corner. The lessons: Each lesson focuses on a specific task for setting up your e-learning scenarios. To comment and download the source files, please visit this post in E-learning Heroes.

The eLearning Guild: Community & Resources for eLearning Professionals Designing Test Questions Descriptions follow with uses, advantages, disadvantages, and tips for writing test questions in the following formats. True/False Good for: Knowledge level content Evaluating student understanding of popular misconceptions Concepts with two logical responses Advantages: Can test large amounts of content Students can answer 3-4 questions per minute Disadvantages: They are easy It is difficult to discriminate between students that know the material and students who don't Students have a 50-50 chance of getting the right answer by guessing Need a large number of items for high reliability Tips for Writing Good True/False items: Avoid double negatives. Matching knowledge level some comprehension level, if appropriately constructed Types: terms with definitions phrases with other phrases causes with effects parts with larger units problems with solutions Maximum coverage at knowledge level in a minimum amount of space/prep time Valuable in content areas that have a lot of facts Need 15 items or less.

How to master a new subject — Quartz I wasn’t always a good learner. I thought learning was all about the hours you put in. Then I discovered something that changed my life. The famous Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman understood the difference between “knowing something” and “knowing the name of something,” and it’s one of the most important reasons for his success. Feynman stumbled upon a formula for learning that ensured he understood something better than everyone else. It’s called the Feynman Technique and it will help you learn anything deeper, and faster. The catch: It’s ridiculously humbling. Not only is this a wonderful method of learning, but it’s also a window into a different way of thinking. There are three steps to the Feynman Technique. Step 1: Teach it to a child Take out a blank sheet of paper and write the subject you want to learn at the top. A lot of people tend to use complicated vocabulary and jargon to mask when they don’t understand something. Step 2: Review This is where the learning starts.

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