Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 22, 2010

Here is a useful interactive resource for course designers to review key ideas in Bloom's Taxonomy. Just hover your mouse pointer on any accordion panel to start viewing key verbs related to a level in the taxonomy. Click on icon at the bottom of each panel to explore the level further. Using Raptivity Presenter accordion interactivity, it took about fifteen minutes to build this interactivity and to insert it in this blog.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Children deserve to have fun when learning computers. SPARK Institute of Technology promises just that: a series of innovative and "full-of-fun" courses and class activities. Recently I talked to Abhay Joshi, their founder, who is a technology entrepreneur and educator. Abhay has two passions: getting computer programs to work flawlessly, and educating children.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2010

One of the things that has always bothered me about m-learning is the small form factor of a smartphone device. The key idea of e-learning is engagement, and the more you can immerse the learner in an online experience the better. The optimal balance of screen size and handling convenience has long been elusive. Now the iPad shows a ray of hope. You get a good size screen that you can hold and carry around easily - just like the Kindle.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

Here is a summary of the podcas t I recently did with Training magazine Senior Writer Margery Weinstein about a better way to learn. Margery Weinstein: When you say "interactivity in training," what are you referring to? VJ: Learners are better engaged when their trainer establishes a two-way dialog. Monolog, as we know, is boring. This is true regardless of the learning modality – be it classroom instruction or e-learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 1, 2010

I look forward to opening this year's speaking calendar in London, at Learning Technologies 2010, Europe's leading organisational learning and learning technology conference. The topic is Emerging trends in interactivity: what every learning professional must know and why. This session will give the audience an overview of the state-of-the art in interactive technology as well as specific insights into how you can utilize emerging new tools and approaches like rapid interactivity and embeddable

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JUNE 28, 2010

When the mail announcing Mouse Mischief from Microsoft arrived in my inbox, I said to myself - Ah ha! Finally, a software with a cool name. The last cool name I heard was YawnBuster. But you know, I'm biased. The idea of the Microsoft product is real simple. The teacher creates a PowerPoint presentation which contains questions, surveys and drawing activities.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 15, 2010

Online collaboration between learners is the bedrock of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. It talks about using various collaboration tools to achieve the 6 learning stages namely - knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. This taxonomy does not specify which collaboration tools and technologies should be used for learning. Instead, it focuses on how to use them to improve learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 29, 2010

Yes, I hear you. Anything that saves time and money has to sacrifice quality, right? Not always. A unique interactive product training framework, published by Harbinger Knowledge Products, allows you to do the following, and much more: Build learning experiences which combine interactive elements in an instructionally sound way Re-use and maintain templates conveniently Easily localize and upgrade training to follow new product versions The framework exploits intriguing new formats such as edume

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 17, 2010

Strategies promoting activities that involve students in doing things and thinking about what they are doing is called Active Learning, proclaims a white paper by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, an education-for-all movement that aspires to educate over 200 million children. Active learning is not just for children. Active learning is a great way to achieve comprehension, application and analysis- three key middle layers of Bloom's taxonomy - in adult learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 7, 2010

eLearning Guild's lastest research paper presents a survey of Rapid e-Learning Tools. The paper, authored by Dr Patti Shank, reveals interesting facts and new insights in the evolving landscape of content creation applications. Some key takeaways: Users select tools for specific features they want, that's their #1 selection criterion - cost figures as #2 Many respondents use multiple tools (typically 4 or more), which often include at least one tool from Adobe Most rapid authoring tools are easy

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In this post I would like to relate five emerging trends in interactivity that training professionals cannot ignore. I will also name a few tools that help you leverage those trends. Interactive Presentations Presenters are increasingly relying upon interactive elements to help their presentations come alive. Trainers and teachers can no longer make do with bullet points.

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