Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Consider interactivity templates. How do the template designers maintain the ease of use and yet provide powerful features that the course designer can control? Here is a short checklist for template designers who want to build flexible interaction templates. How many flash cards per interaction? Is that possible?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2012

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. Combining an interactive e-book with a rapid-check assessment to implement an open book test.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 25, 2012

Perhaps it was the powerful and relevant theme that drew such crowd: Interactions on Mobile. The Raptivity-sponsored event provided several insights in interactive mLearning. What works? What Doesn’t?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Users found it a chore to delete sample content from interaction templates before adding their own. Another area where course developers faced some inconvenience was in putting together media content for use in interactions. The new version of Raptivity provides that too - in the customization screen.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

He interacts with instructional designers and training managers in several countries regularly. There are innovative interaction and engagement opportunities. VG: I can name three challenges: One, interactivity is necessary. They will get fatigued and bored with simple interactions. VG: You need to engage students.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 25, 2012

I recentntly spoke at a webinar on “ Interactive Courses on a Shoestring Budget ”. Top5 Budget Breakers The top five budget breaking situations encountered while creating an interactive course are briefly summarized below for your reference. Raptivity provides a great example. It generated a lot of interest and discussion.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

The learning interactions I create in Flash today will need to also support HTML5 in the near future. I should be able to create a wide variety of interactions that learners can play on devices of their choice - laptops, tablets and smart phones. Very soon, all Raptivity interactions are slated to go HTML5. That's not all.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The interaction search is powerful. The descriptions of interactions include useful tips on how and where you can use them. Besides, Raptivity now provides a HTML5 preview of your work - another first in the industry. Its customer-inspired design helps you get around in fewer clicks.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 23, 2012

That is why I am excited about Raptivity Evolve , a remarkable new initiative that brings value to Raptivity users on an on-going way through new complimentary interactions, webinars, samples and more. Also interesting is InteractivityHub , a vibrant online community, where users exchange thoughts and ideas, ask questions and provide answers.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

Avatars are interactive animated pedagogical agents. Make the avatar instructionally relevant – it should fulfill the interactivity needs of a learner. Avatar should support 2-way interaction. It responds to the learner's needs and provides helpful guidance. It should augment content, not be the content.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 30, 2011

Audience Response Systems (ARS) establish interactivity between presenters and their audience. Among the several well-known benefits of ARS, the most important one is that it creates an interactive and fun learning environment. Clickers are no good for webinars.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

We decided to outline our curriculum in a skeletal form using a blog, and then set social interactions in the curriculum context. 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. We used Blogger, the Google blogging tool.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2014

I have interacted and learned a lot from my colleagues who always push and encourage me to dabble in new things. These objects could be natural or man-made which would be provided with an IP address and the ability to transfer data over a network. I started my journey with Harbinger Systems sometime back.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

Margery Weinstein: When you say "interactivity in training," what are you referring to? By “interactivity” I mean an artifact (such as a piece of software) that allows for a two-way dialog that is non-trivial. By “interactivity” I mean an artifact (such as a piece of software) that allows for a two-way dialog that is non-trivial.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 30, 2009

A digital cinema provider from Hollywood will soon start using Raptivity for sales presentations. Rapid interactivity building, which started in e-learning, is now spreading to presentations and web development. Boredom is a common problem, except e-learning professionals were the first to address it using rapid interactivity.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 22, 2009

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.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 31, 2009

Excessive guidance and tracking can actually shut down communication, depriving us of a key goal of interactivity. I don't always provide immediate feedback - sometimes I delay it so the learner can observe the consequences of mistakes. Tags: interactivity e-learning custom content development Learning 2.0 0-1: The Lawnmower.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

After spending two weeks in London and Paris, my interactions with elearning professionals have left me even more convinced about the need for embracing new technology to advance learning. At the Olympia 2 Conference Center in London, the topic of my talk was “Unleash the Potential of Learning Interactions and Informal Learning.”

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The language must be such that it has a low barrier for learning, that it facilitates learning by providing embedded learning objects (like the Turtle in Logo), and that it does not snare the user in a complex process of edit-compile-run cycle of industry-standard languages. A: Check out the interactive below. We use Logo.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

A few years back, e-learning courses were largely static, with a few interactions here and there. As interactivity takes center stage, more and more learning happens through interactions. With this, course developers are increasingly feeling the need to provide additional information elements within interactions.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 17, 2010

Imagine a set of questions the learner has to answer, based on the information provided. When you present this in an interactive timeline, learners can not only discover the sequence of events, but also drill down to additional information, related events and thus discover cause-effect relationships. Here is a trick.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2014

The use of learning interactions is one such example. Self-paced e-learning courses employ learning interactions that allow learners to engage with the course materials in interesting ways. Interactions include games, exercises, simulations, drill-downs and so forth. The way to overcome this is adding interactivity.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

To answer this, Gladwell provides another interesting data set. Interactive learning cannot possibly limit itself to making learning events more exciting. Is it because the disadvantaged kids aren’t as smart? Or is it because somehow the schools do a better job with kids already in a position of advantage? That is part of the game.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 20, 2012

Even better the tool could intelligently select an alternative media from multiple media provided. One way for an m-learning tool to create value would be to alert the user when a non-support type is referred to. Both the creation and consumption of m-learning content on mobile devices is substantially different from traditional e-learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Because you need only a single project for developing the content, the single source content solution provides great cost efficiency. Finally, nothing matters if learners don’t find the learning engaging and interactive. Single source content scores there too!

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 1, 2014

The key is to provide an ability to create semantically structured content through proper community collaboration. [Maheshkumar] We are getting to the goal in pieces like enriched tracking specifications, delivery mechanism, etc. It will enable maximum reuse and re-purposing. Social networking has to be given equal consideration.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The instructor has the ability to look up correct answers, provide helpful hints and mark right or wrong answers. Once in the classroom, the game allows the instructor to form competing groups of students, and rotate turns among them to answer questions within a fixed time limit, in an attempt to win a house.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In his prediction concerning authoring tools he points out the possibility of authoring tools providing 'publish to HTML5' option. Gadd follows this up with another post titled New mlearning Authoring Offerings - Wave #1 where he discusses two leading tools that have already provided HTML5 capability.

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