Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Five Ways to Make Online Learning Engaging

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Combining an interactive e-book with a rapid-check assessment to implement an open book test. A new complimentary whitepaper titled 5 Creative Ideas of using Raptivity in Online Training outlines five innovative ways to make online learning interesting and engaging with the help of learning interactions.

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Power vs Ease of Use: Do We Need to Choose One?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Liberal Limits: How many pages in a flip book? Text Hyperlinks: When there is a need to provide additional information that wouldn't fit the real estate of the interaction, a text hyperlink is the best way out. How many steps in a process? How many bullets in a slide? How many terms in a glossary? How many hot spots in a rollover exercise?

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Getting a Head Start with Mobile Interactions

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

The following table summarizes the various interactions and their usage. Please note that (H5T) indicates the Raptivity HTML5 Turbopack, (H5S) indicates the Raptivity HTML5 Starter Pack.

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How Will the iPad Change Interactive Learning?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

inch multi-touch screen, the iPad is supposed to revolutionize the way we surf the internet, watch television and movies, read books and newspapers. The handling experience mimics a book - something learners are familiar with. And it seems capable of doing much more than the Kindle - although it lacks the glare-free e-ink of Kindle.

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

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Malcolm Gladwell, the bestselling author of TheTipping Point , has come up with another book that has created plenty of buzz. Among other things, the book mentions a study on learning effectiveness by Johns Hopkins University sociologist Karl Alexander.

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Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy: Examples from the Online World

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Imagine a student reading a text book on a Kindle book reader. In order to find a piece of online content, a learner needs to perform search by combining multiple criteria - something that requires understanding what he/she is looking for. The link between annotation and comprehension should be easy to understand.

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Keeping Interactivity at the Center of Rapid Development

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Yet, in many cases, the phrase “rapid development” has become synonymous with cranking out content that resembles an online book format. What we DON'T need in the industry, Bryan argued at a recent webinar, is a faster way to create page-turning courseware! Does it have to be that way? According to Bryan, the answer is an emphatic “No.”