Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Learning Arcs and Story Arcs

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

With that background, then, here is a definition of interactive learning arc for instructional designers who build e-learning courses. instructional design interactions interactivity learning arcs learning interactions short courses short modules story arcs' Have you used learning arcs as short learning nuggets all by themselves?

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Getting a Head Start with Mobile Interactions

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

These interactions, together with memory aids available in the Raptivity HTML5 Turbopack released earlier, provide a rich variety of templates that suit a large number of instructional goals. While it was a very useful collection of interactions, it mainly featured a bunch of memory aids such as flash cards.

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Avatars in eLearning: Best Practices

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

For example, if a learner is revisiting a 'How to’ instructions page, this will help. Is there a list of best practices for using avatars in e-learning? Sure enough, here is what Janhavi recommends. Give course authors (and possibly learners) the ability to customize the avatar. It should augment content, not be the content.

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Infusing Assessments with Advanced Interactivity

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Some instructional designers believe that throwing in some multiple choice questions make learning sufficiently interactive. Sometimes your instructional objective decides the interaction type. There is no assessment unless the learner interacts with the e-learning course in some way. We would like to question that.

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A Learning Interaction Look-up Table

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Here is the quick learning interaction look-up table I promised in an earlier post for instructional designers to locate some of the best examples of the various types of ready-made interactive elements.

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Five Ways to Make Online Learning Engaging

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

In specific, the paper suggests instructional designers and trainers consider the following techniques. A new complimentary whitepaper titled 5 Creative Ideas of using Raptivity in Online Training outlines five innovative ways to make online learning interesting and engaging with the help of learning interactions.

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Building Your E-Learning Course Design Tool Kit

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Every instructional designer follows some sort of an e-learning course design process. It is my endeavor to take a look at the e-learning course design process here, so that you can decide how to build a tool kit that addresses all process components.

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