Saturday, December 28, 2019
Saturday, December 21, 2019
Weekly Sporto bookmarks (weekly)
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Why We Are Using Blockchain for Digital Credentialing -- Campus Technology
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Frugal MOOCs: An Adaptable Contextualized Approach to MOOC Designs for Refugees
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"International Journal of Web-Based Learning and Teaching Technologies,"
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Advanced Concepts Of Instructional Design
good discussion of content chunking and ID strategies
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- Performance: It describes what the learner is expected to be able to DO.
- Condition: It refers to the situation or environment under which the performance is expected to occur.
- Criteria: It describes the level of competence that must be reached or surpassed.
Robert Mager’s Learning Objectives
According to Dr. Robert F. Mager, an ideal learning objective has 3 components.
- Content Chunking
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- Crisp sentences
- Bulleted and numbered lists
- Content chunking is needed when you have a lot of content that needs to be shown on a single screen to reduce the cognitive load on the learner.
- Content in each screen needs to be divided into ‘Need to know’ (essential to achieve the learning objectives) and ‘Nice to know’ (more detailed explanations, examples, etc.).
- Chunking is done at the course, unit, and screen level.
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- Modules
- Lessons/Units
- Screens/Topics
Course Level Chunking is done to determine hierarchy and divide a course into:
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- Bulleted lists
- Short sub-headings
- Tables
- Short sentences with one or two ideas per sentence
- Short paragraphs, even one-sentence paragraphs
- Easily readable text, with key phrases in bold font
- Images
Screen Level Chunking is done explaining 3-5 ‘learning points’ per screen. A ‘learning point or unit’ is one chunk of learning that cannot be broken down further.
Screen level chunking usually contains:
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To Chunk or not to Chunk
Here are a few guidelines on when to chunk content.
When to chunk content
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- Chunk more content
- Show small stand-alone sentences on the screen
- Give detailed descriptions in the audio When explaining a process or procedure:
- Show chunked content using interactivities
- Explain the process in detail in the audio If the course has more visuals:
- Chunk more content
- Let the visuals speak
- Not chunking in such cases leads to redundancy
- Give more explanation on-screen
- Use audio to highlight important points when explaining facts and principles:
- Chunk content as little as possible without changing the meaning when the course has more text/fewer visuals and no audio:
- Show the entire content onscreen
If the course has adequate audio:
When not to chunk content
When the course is not audio dominant:
- Instructional Strategy
- Clear learning objectives and design goals are the pre-requisite to any instructional strategy, including the instructional strategy and the audio/visual strategy.
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- Content: Involves activities such as chunking content into manageable units, segregating into need-to-know and nice-to-know resources, and presenting it in a logical flow.
- Media: Includes media elements are animations audio, and video elements. Animations can be used to explain a concept, idea, or process better and audio or video elements can be used to enhance the learning experience.
- Visual: Includes the Graphic User Interface (GUI), Graphics and Pictures. They represent the various elements and the physical environment a learner encounters in a course.
- Assessments: Includes formative or/and summative and help inculcate analytical thinking and creative problem-solving skills.
- Technical: Includes functional specifications of what you can do and cannot do in the course, with respect to the LMS considerations, standard compliance, and authoring tools that are used.
Components of an ID Strategy
The various components of an ID strategy include:
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New Gamification Training Software Pitfalls - eLearning Industry
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Designing Microlearning Instruction for ProfessionalDevelopment Through a Competency Based Approach
Saturday, December 14, 2019
Weekly Sporto bookmarks (weekly)
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Machine learning has been used to automatically translate long-lost languages
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Gamification Applications and Digital Badges - Stan Garfield - Medium
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- The generic goal of gamification is to promote the active interest of users, their engagement, to modify their behaviors
- For having a positive effect on the business, it is necessary that gamification’s users have fun
- More over the app propose other statistics including a social dimension that gives the possibility to challenge friend and compare results and score, so that the runners community always knows who are people on the top.
- Mechanics, which was the single bricks that built the whole products gamification structure; they are usually associated with some actions that allow to reach business goals.
- Dynamics, so the needs and desire, studied by behavioural psychology, rooted inside people and that could be gratified through interaction with game mechanics.
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The Benefits of Using Digital Badges in an Online Course - SPS | Distance Learning
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Instructional Design Templates | Instructional Design Central (IDC)