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How Audio Can Improve Online Learning

CourseArc

Audio-enhanced lessons help make the learning experience much more robust, functional, and accessible. Other benefits of audio-enhanced lessons include: Context through Vocal Inflection: Even brilliantly written and artfully designed text and graphics may not be able to convey the essence of a concept or theory the same way spoken words can.

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Empowering students with digital tools and project-based learning

Kadenze

Psychology courses typically use lectures and tutorials to focus on key concepts, the history of psychology and the scientific methods used in psychological research. The underpinning pedagogy of these courses marks a distinctive and significant contribution to the field of creative education. This course takes a different approach.

Project 52
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Empowering students with digital tools and project-based learning

Kadenze

Psychology courses typically use lectures and tutorials to focus on key concepts, the history of psychology and the scientific methods used in psychological research. The underpinning pedagogy of these courses marks a distinctive and significant contribution to the field of creative education. This course takes a different approach.

Project 52
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Activate the Braincells Through the Art of Storytelling

Magic EdTech

On the contrary what comes to the mind when you hear “chapter”, “lesson”,” module” or a “topic”? A highly academic- drab presentation or a lecture ….Right? As a result, not only the language processing parts but the visual cortex and the emotional reaction area of the brain too get activated. Story, emotions, and enjoyment!!

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How to Improve Student Retention in eLearning

CourseArc

According to Psychology Today , while the human brain is capable of multi-tasking, it does far better when processing basic tasks. In her research about human emotion and memory , Elizabeth Phelps, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, notes that emotions and memory work together in our brains.

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mLearning Strategy

Ed App

There are, however, lessons to be drawn out from our collective experience. Similar to a Netflix algorithm, features such as Brain Boost use spaced repetition to boost learner retention and refresh acquired knowledge in the ideal window of opportunity before it falls off the edge of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve. .

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Is Having Fun in Higher Education the Way Forward?

KnowledgeOne

In an interview conducted by the TALON online teaching and learning network, Lisa Forbes and David Thomas discuss game pedagogy in higher education and online learning. Recent studies have concluded that lecturing, which has been practised for over 500 years, is not the most effective teaching approach available.