Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Avatars in eLearning: Best Practices

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

An avatar doubles as a learning assistant (learning aid) that guides the learning by either answering questions, or guiding the learners, linking to external content and so forth. Avatars personalize a course, add variety to learning, especially in long modules on complex subjects. Do you use avatars in e-learning?

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A Learning Interaction Look-up Table

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Build guided adaptive scenarios, explorative branching simulations, immersion learning situations and whiteboard simulations Click Raptivity Standard 3 technical training -overview visuals, flow diagrams and software simulations.

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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. Sometimes, stating it negatively is more emphatic. So let's just say: No chaos.)

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Implementing Learning Interactions Using 3D Metaphors and Ideas from Virtual Worlds

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Usually, navigation in courses is linear or guided. 3D Objects for Content Navigation This sound different from navigation based on the ubiquitous Next and Previous buttons, right? However, when the information is non-sequential, the learner needs a choice to freely navigate through the content.

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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. The blog has a personal touch, it is easy to follow, its updates are delivered to participant's RSS reader instantaneously. We used Blogger, the Google blogging tool.

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What is Rapid Interactivity?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

This was the case in one situation where the requirement was simply to create learning guides which would be printed and circulated. If you do not create interactive content, and do not plan to, then obviously you don't need rapid interactivity.

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Keeping Interactivity at the Center of Rapid Development

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Blended Learning and Interactivity IBM blended learning model arranges various learning modalities in three concentric circles.