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Oppia - just like the good old days

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I''ve had a look at several examples of Oppia dialogues and, to be honest, they are still pretty primitive. It was possible to create convincing, engaging and often highly amusing conversations between the system (actually the teacher who authored the course) and the student. However, I like the idea. instructional design'

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There are three vowels in 'learning' (and 'i' comes last)

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elaboration , in the form of examples and analogies? Teaching ‘comprehensively’ starts with the examples we provide. Give plenty of examples. So, add an example: 'You can hold a conversation while going for a run with a friend. As Chip and Dan Heath explain: 'Language is often abstract but life is not.

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Do your learners a favour: write like a human

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Of course, you will need to use unfamiliar technical terms from time to time – just make sure you define them carefully and provide examples of how they should be used. When you write like you speak, you will naturally use shorter words, a more conversational tone and shorter sentences.'

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The learning professional as storyteller

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That's why it's so much more difficult to run a workshop for the first time - it can take quite a while to come up with all those anecdotes and examples that bring the event to life. They illustrate a point, they stimulate discussion. They will structure this information and support it with visual aids and practical exercises.

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Insights: L&D is playing a key role in supporting informal learning

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A great example of this is the ubiquitous YouTube video, which can be embedded just about anywhere from a blog post to an email, perhaps even played in a classroom! On the other hand, nine in every hundred will keep the conversation going and contribute in some way with a comment or refinement.

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Three paths to personalised learning

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They develop insights into the students for whom they are responsible, so they can customise the examples and analogies that they provide, offer helpful feedback and respond to varying degrees of progress. Learning is more effective and more efficient when it is personalised. Good teachers are not just purveyors of a curriculum.

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The learner speaks

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A massive 84% are willing to use technology to share knowledge to help others learning, which begs the question why we are not seeing more successful examples of this happening in a work context. I think we can also conclude safely that this implies people do not want to learn 100% in classrooms. How confident are staff with social media?

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