Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Active Learning - Unleashing the Power of Scenarios and Activities

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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. Here is a trick.

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Twelve Ways to Add Value to Open Source LMS Systems

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Here we deal with problems such as grade data privacy, activation and deactivation of users for business reasons, and protecting sensitive business information arising from learning systems from prying eyes. How about showing a recap of 'your recent learning activity'? Catalog Management What does the learner see on logging in?

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Interactivity-Centric Blended Learning

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

The topic of the talk was “Fostering Interactivity in the Classroom, Self-paced eLearning and Informal Learning.” In informal learning, social interaction is pivotal. In classrooms, interactivity takes the form of facilitated group activities. Peer learning thrives on people talking to each other.

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Internet of Things: Imagination is the only limit

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

This cool and trendy looking wrist band not only ups your style quotient a notch higher but also tracks the amount of physical activity done; the energy burned and counts the number of steps taken. The information gathered is integrated into the Nike+ online community which helps us to monitor and track our fitness progress.

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Learning Events vs Environments: A Case for Putting the Learner in the Center

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Presumably, the affluent kids get to engage in useful activities in summer, including reading at home, summer camps and what have you. Tags: learning modalities Blended Learning learning effectiveness classroom instruction social informal learning. The gains show dramatic differences here. What is going on?

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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Examples from the Online World

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

In the digital world, examples of learning activities that lead to remembering include highlighting and social bookmarking. Classifying digital information in files and folders involves categorization. Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts or lists, or recite or retrieve material.

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