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How Gagné’s Nine Events of Instruction Can Make Your Online Courses Better

CourseArc

A 2015 study by Microsoft shows that the current average attention span of humans is only 8 seconds, compared to 12 seconds in 2000. For example: Use mid-point assessments, incorporate interactive quizzes, require responses to queries before moving on, and facilitate inter-student collaboration through group activities/projects.

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Influence and the Relevance of Experience

Training Industry

Consider those distinctions as you peruse a sampling of recent business trends identified by Deloitte: In 1990, approximately 45 percent of the world’s population lived in extreme poverty. The number of North American companies in the Fortune Global 500 fell from 215 in 2001 to 127 in 2015. Today, that number is roughly 20 percent.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 2 – Practice Makes Perfect

Learnnovators

You don’t get this by being exhaustive; a more pragmatic solution would be to select sample problems that span the space of possibilities (and outside, where it won’t apply), to support appropriate abstraction to facilitate transfer. Any practice you track is assessment, and so inherently the final practice is summative assessment.

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DEEPER ELEARNING DESIGN: PART 2 – PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Learnnovators

You don’t get this by being exhaustive; a more pragmatic solution would be to select sample problems that span the space of possibilities (and outside, where it won’t apply), to support appropriate abstraction to facilitate transfer. Any practice you track is assessment, and so inherently the final practice is summative assessment.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 6 – Putting It All Together

Learnnovators

To start with, we will use a sample process as an example, and you will have to infer how to adapt this for you. Typically, an instructional designer uses these resources to determine the objective(s) of the course, and the major content to be developed, as well as assessment. Published on 08-Oct-2015. Written by Clark Quinn.

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We Must Address the Leadership Strategy Mortality Rate

CLO Magazine

Leadership readiness is low and declining, according to two consecutive Global Leadership Forecast studies from DDI — 2011 and 2015. Of participating organizations, only 18 percent (2011) and 15 percent (2015) had sufficient bench strength to meet oncoming business demands. Editor’s note: Author works for DDI.]

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Scaling with eLearning: How & Where to Grow

eFront

Expected 2015 Investment in LMS Software (Sample of US HR Professionals) – Source: Learning Management Systems Userview 2015, Software Advice. billion in 2018 and from a wider perspective, the global eLearning sector is expected to reach an estimated worth of $107 billion in 2015. billion in 2013 to $7.83