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Learner Engagement – Are Games the Answer?

Association eLearning

If you read industry journals like “T&D” from ASTD or Associations Now, you’ll see that engagement is hot. Everyone is talking about increasing engagement, and many are turning to gamification, social learning networks, and anything else they think will work to increase learner engagement. Learners need context and relevance.

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Respect Your Learners to Maximize ROI

Training Industry

Make your learners active participants in the training. Grab learners’ attention and generate curiosity about what might have happened if they had selected a different option. So as you make crucial investments for your organization, put yourself in your learners’ shoes. Everyone can recall a story they heard or read long ago.

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Learn by Walking in Their Shoes

Training Industry

One of the most effective and scalable approaches is rich, realistic simulations that enable learners to assume the roles of others and “play” through believable, interactive stories. Make your characters human and multidimensional, so that learners identify and empathize with them. Develop a narrative that elicits a range of emotions.

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What you see is what you do

Learning with e's

I also published a second post in which I listed 6 ways IWBs could be used to engage learners in the classroom. Here are a magnificent seven ways interactive whiteboards can be used to enhance learning and engage learners: Firstly, IWBs can promote better engagement in learning. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Higgins, S.,

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3 Powerful Learning Mediums Reimagined

OpenSesame

You follow the established instructional design protocol of ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation) and then present your content to the learner and ta-da! Learners glaze over when forced to take them and speed through them as quickly as they can, just to mark completion. you have a course. . 1) [link].

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3 Powerful Learning Mediums Reimagined

OpenSesame

You follow the established instructional design protocol of ADDIE (analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation) and then present your content to the learner and ta-da! Learners glaze over when forced to take them and speed through them as quickly as they can, just to mark completion. you have a course. They hate them.

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Becoming an Expert: What Has Intuition Got to Do With It? - Tip #199

Vignettes Learning

According to this article published in the Mind and Machines journal, intuition is “the speed and ease with which experts can recognize the key features of a situation” or “the rapid understanding shown by individuals, typically experts, when they face a problem.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux, April 2, 2013 Boston College.

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