Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Power vs Ease of Use: Do We Need to Choose One?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

How do the template designers maintain the ease of use and yet provide powerful features that the course designer can control? Element Size and Placement : Provide control to the course designer over the placement of whole elements, not just text labels, images, buttons and videos. How many hot spots in a rollover exercise?

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Getting a Head Start with Mobile Interactions

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Then there are interactive quizzes that test knowledge and provide feedback. You can also provide ready reference materials for the people on the go. You can encourage exploration by learners.

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Active Learning - Unleashing the Power of Scenarios and Activities

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Imagine a set of questions the learner has to answer, based on the information provided. This is plain vanilla comprehension exercise as we know it. How do you make it an active learning exercise? The finding exercise can be implemented in many ways. In this post, I give a few examples. Here is a trick.

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Ad-hoc Social Learning Environment - How a Blog Drives Learning

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Blog posts provided a guiding theme and then pointed to a web resource such as a YouTube video, or a podcast or a news story article or a case study. In yet another case, a blog post would provide a framework for various leadership traits, and participants would be asked to reflect and decide how they view themselves.

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Where Did YawnBuster Come from?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

The speaker can control the amount of interaction The interaction serves a specific purpose: energizes the audience, creates fun, provides a breather and so on Everyone has a way to participate The interaction is organized and guided by some kind of a structure. Clearly, what is needed is a way to present, where four conditions are satisfied.

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Learning Interactions in PowerPoint: Add Engagement to Instructor-Led Training

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Interactions include games, exercises, simulations, drill-downs and so forth. When effectively incorporated, interactions make learning more engaging and memorable, provide a change of pace, and improve outcomes. If you incorporate a quiz game, a quick exercise, a brainteaser or even a few trivia questions, the classroom comes alive.