Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

You can encourage exploration by learners. With this new Raptivity extension, you don't have to spend hours thinking about how to emulate Flash-like interactions in HTML5. Raptivity HTML5 Starter Pack The new pack features interactions that let you jazz up your presentations.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 30, 2011

The goal was to outline the various aspects trainers and educators need to consider while designing their training material for next generation learners. Today, learners are exposed to variety of high-end digital experiences and they expect the same in their learning. These learners have a low attention span.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

AUGUST 27, 2012

There is no assessment unless the learner interacts with the e-learning course in some way. Learners are bored to death with the chore of answering the same types of questions: MCQ, Matching, Fill-in and Drag-drop. Summative assessments, which occur at the end of a learning module, aim to evaluate the learner and report a score.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The purpose of a learning arc is accomplish a change in the learner, as implied in the learning objective, by taking him/her through multiple learning interactions. The learner experiences one or more ah-ha moments as s/he moves through a series of interactions with the learning environment, completing a learning arc.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 31, 2012

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. I should be able to track learner performance with m-Learning content. The learning interactions I create in Flash today will need to also support HTML5 in the near future.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JUNE 24, 2014

There is also an opportunity to observe how people are learning, the kind of questions they are asking and how engaged they are in the community of learners. There is an opportunity to evaluate people based on how they are contributing to crowd-sourced content. Q: Doesn’t that make the job of evaluation more complex?

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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. Now, the learner is not only comprehending information to answer questions, but also devising a way to look for that information, and hence, thinking about what he / she is doing. What does the learner apply? Here is a trick.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 30, 2011

Click 3D Artifacts Raptivity 3D Enrich Content Presentation with 3D Objects and Virtual Worlds Click Social Interactions TeemingPod Embed polls and discussions in web content, invite discussion around presentations Click YawnBuster Business Activities Get learners in a classroom to brainstorm, prioritize, build mind-maps, t-charts and collaborate Click (..)

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 23, 2013

When the learner understands that enjoyment of learning is directly proportional to the preparation beforehand, no additional motivation is needed to flip the classroom. In some cases, the real-life protagonists would show up in the classroom. That was cool. Lecturing is easy, listening is the hard part. The best HBS professors get it.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 15, 2010

Online collaboration between learners is the bedrock of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. In this post I have tried to give a few examples on how online collaboration in learning can help learners at each stage of learning. Learners who understand concepts are able to explain or describe these. Publishing is the sequel to production.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

VJ: Learners are better engaged when their trainer establishes a two-way dialog. Here the learner is fully engaged in a dialog with the computer, or the teacher or another learner. They provide a context that is sufficiently engrossing and invite action from the learner. Monolog, as we know, is boring.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2010

The key idea of e-learning is engagement, and the more you can immerse the learner in an online experience the better. The handling experience mimics a book - something learners are familiar with. Two or more learners can easily work together with such devices - with better off-angle display capabilities.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In classroom learning, learners are addressed as a group, all at once. In e-Learning, each learner is addressed separately, and learns at his or her own pace. It is easy for learner to get distracted, and e-learning designers endeavor to prevent this. Thus, group dynamics plays an important role. Here, the key is engagement.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2007

However, when the information is non-sequential, the learner needs a choice to freely navigate through the content. Free navigation is easily provided with hyperlinks and menus, but there is a risk of the learner wandering away from the course page. Usually, navigation in courses is linear or guided. Yes, there is.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

The learner does not have to brave a trek to the school, crossing rivers and hills. However, m-Learning is feasible because phone networks are ubiquitous, and you don't require continuous electricity for mobile phone operation. What are the benefits of m-Learning in this market? VG: m-Learning is truly self paced, 24X7 learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Most e-learning developers assume the availability of the free Flash plug-in on the learner's browser. This works fine on desktops and laptops. When you get mobile, the world changes rapidly. Some mobile devices may support Flash, others don't. The Apple iPad, iPhone and iPod are examples where your Flash elements simply won't work.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

AUGUST 25, 2011

JP: There is inherently a greater chance of distraction since the learner is on the move. I talked to her to get her take on the subject. Mobile content is short-duration, small-screen. Why bother making it interactive? So the need for delivering engaging content is even greater. Give us examples of interactivity on mobile devices.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

Globally, eLearning occupies an increasing portion of the total learning delivered but still there are concerns about learner disengagement and non-completion. The root causes of learner boredom are traced to the lack of interactivity, learner isolation and content obsolescence.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Learners were expected to consume the content and then respond to the questions raised in the blog post. The debates were organized in groups of 6 to 8 learners, and each group discussed several aspects of the case. The instructor's blog posts were very short - often less than one hundred words.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 11, 2011

What is more, the ability for learners to interact around individual slides of a presentation adds significant value and enhances the learning experience notably. Here is a brief summary. Interactive presentations work great Posting presentations online and sharing them amongst program participants is useful in its own right.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 1, 2010

Every learning professional - whether a teacher, trainer, course developer, subject matter expert or instructional designer - must think about building interactive experiences for learners. Clearly, technology is advancing rapidly to help make this happen.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

It is a most pleasant conversation in which infinite patience, immense power, and untiring servitude are offered by the computer to the learner. Through error messages the child discovers errors in his/her thinking.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

So is a scenario simulation where you can easily change the content, learner actions and their consequences - building multiple scenarios without coding. For example, a crossword puzzle where you can put new words and clues easily, to create an entirely new crossword, is an interaction model.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

A learner may spend more time working through a simulation, playing a game or exploring an interactive visual than reading the course material. For example, consider an interactive Android phone tutorial where the learner rolls her mouse cursor over parts of the phone and explores its features. A button can also pop up a video (.flv/.f4v),

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2014

Self-paced e-learning courses employ learning interactions that allow learners to engage with the course materials in interesting ways. Now with a couple of decades experience of e-learning, classroom instruction can incorporate some of the best practices in e-learning. The use of learning interactions is one such example.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

BB: Today’s learners are prepared to access learning on desktops, laptops, smart phones and tablets. It can also be carried on the learner's device and played offline. Finally, nothing matters if learners don’t find the learning engaging and interactive. Okay, what's the pain point you are addressing? What are the advantages?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2009

In the second step, while presenting, the instructor uses facilitation tools to configure groups, rotate turns, time the learners, score them and so forth - while the class plays the game. Do you think there will be additional advantages if learners can use clicking devices to participate in such games?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Learners expect interactive elements in your presentations. The blog posts contained Raptivity elements, exercises and modules the learners to complete, and I used a Twitter gadget inside my blog. Interactive Presentations Presenters are increasingly relying upon interactive elements to help their presentations come alive.

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