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Formative Assessments in E-Learning

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Assessments in any learning course – whether academic or corporate, are absolutely necessary because they ensure that the course is meetings its objectives. Just like with anything else, assessing also requires a careful strategy. Broadly speaking, there are two main kinds of assessments – formative and summative.

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Tips for Creating Effective E-Learning Assessments

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Let us begin with an analogy: If training is a medicine, assessment is a mechanism to ascertain the effectiveness of that medicine. Now with e-learning too, comes the necessity of an assessment mechanism to evaluate how far is the learning actually happening. Reinforce the learning objectives. It also helps learners to ‘explore’ more.

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Instructional Design: The Process – Part 2

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Before diving head-on into creating a training, a need analysis is required to assess the training needs and skill gaps. Assessments and activities are important to learning as they determine the learning effectiveness and evaluate and confirm if the learning objectives have been met. ADDIE Framework.

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Infographic on Learning Experience Design Trends in 2018

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Design has evolved from functional buttons, synchronized audio and video, and assessments. Design plays a major role in the success of an eLearning program. Modern eLearning is all about creating engaging and powerful learning experiences that drive the user to complete the training program with ease.

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How Long is too Short? Determining the Ideal Duration for Bite-Sized Learning

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In 2015, researchers at the Dresden University of Technology found that a group of online learners studying through a microlearning platform answered assessment questions 20% more accurately than a group who learned through the traditional method of studying a substantial amount of material, then completing one assessment.

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Using Decreasing Attention Spans to your Advantage

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You can create customized apps that offer learning, SMS-alerts that send one key learning in each SMS, and small quizzes to assess learning. Add the social quotient to learning by allowing learners within a group to challenge themselves to complete modules and assessments. IBM Leads the Way.

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Learning is Everybody’s Business

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Log on to the LMS, browse eLearning courses available, choose one, learn at leisure, link to references, collaborate with colleagues on internal social media – networks, groups, chats, forums, share best practices, take the assessments, download results. All the employee has to do is to present this assessment to the appraiser.

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