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Providing Good Feedback: How to Do It Right

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If you’re learning a new language using an app such as Duolingo, you get both gamified positive feedback (for example, badges for completing a “streak”) and negative feedback (for example, losing a “heart” every time you answer a question incorrectly).

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Purposeful Practice to Improve Performance with Game-based Interactions

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To share an example, publishers of textbooks come with already prepared practice activities. For example, in the healthcare field, if the students don’t know the medical terms and they are in the middle of a conversation or performing a task, they do not have the time to stop and look up that medical term or look up what step comes next.

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Storytelling—A Powerful Instructional Technique for Attitudinal Trainings

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They present information in a coherent form, transforming the abstract/complex ideas into concrete, relatable examples. Everyone is familiar with the structure of a story and can intuitively process information from a story. Stories let learners grasp the knowledge in meaningful ways.

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Instructional Designers and Product Managers – Traversing The Common Trail

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As I think about thousands of these conversations that I have had over the years with instructional designers and course creators, I thought I could easily map some similarities between a product manager’s job profile and an instructional designer or even a course creator’s job profile.

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Five Tips To Make an Instructional Designer’s LinkedIn Profile Shine

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LinkedIn recently redesigned its UI, thus bringing Conversations and Content to the heart of the platform. For example, if you are an instructional designer, a very creative and jazzy headline could be something like this: Instructional Designer, Storyteller and Thinker who weaves magic in her courses. How to do it?