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Flipped learning for talent development: Lessons from the college classroom

CLO Magazine

What I knew about teaching is what I remembered from my undergraduate and graduate courses — the “sage on the stage” delivering a well-crafted lecture accompanied by a PowerPoint. I threw in a few questions and the rare group exercise to make the class “interactive” and “engaging.”

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

Unfortunately, most trainers and faculty believe that the deployment of powerpoint and pdf notes on a learning management system equals the development of eLearning content. This is developed using reinforcement exercises like Matching, True or False, Sequence and decision making. eLearning is more than that.

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The RETAIN Model for Creating Effective Courses

TalentLMS

Unfortunately, most trainers and faculty believe that the deployment of powerpoint and pdf notes on a learning management system equals the development of eLearning content. This is developed using reinforcement exercises like Matching, True or False, Sequence and decision making. eLearning is more than that.

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Key Steps to Preparing Great Synchronous Interactions

Experiencing eLearning

“Death by PowerPoint online is worse than Death by PowerPoint in the classroom&# (not an exact quote, but gets the gist of what she said). Practice exercise–can be asynchronous. Even the PowerPoint 2007 Smart Art would be an improvement. Think Bloom’s taxonomy for different types of questions.

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Where Did YawnBuster Come from?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

A taxonomy of group activities fell in place: participation enhancer activities, collaboration activities, breather activities. Trainers could choose from icebreakers, activators, group exercises, energizer games and closers. Research by eLearning Guild shows PowerPoint to be the tool most commonly used by trainers.

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Learn With Intensity

CLO Magazine

• Leadership programs are seen as some of the most intense offerings because of elements such as 360-degree feedback, coaching and group exercises; yet many programs have increased the use of external academic lecturers, who often share overloaded PowerPoint presentations of their business stories with low learner engagement.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Go Read a Book

Learning Visions

In a recent book claiming that television and video games were “making our minds sharper,&# the journalist Steven Johnson argued that since we value reading for “exercising the mind,&# we should value electronic media for offering a superior “cognitive workout.&# What do you think?

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