Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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Ad-hoc Social Learning Environment Version 2: BaseCamp 2011

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

In an earlier post, I described an ad-hoc social learning environment where a blog was set up to drive learning for a group of 40 executives in a company, spread over multiple locations.

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

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

We decided to set up an ad-hoc social learning environment mostly using freely available tools. In this post, I summarize what we learned about the ad-hoc social learning environments. We decided to outline our curriculum in a skeletal form using a blog, and then set social interactions in the curriculum context.

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Learning Arcs and Story Arcs

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

A well-designed self-paced learning experience parallels some of these elements. 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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Next Generation Audience Response Systems for Teachers and Trainers

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Among the several well-known benefits of ARS, the most important one is that it creates an interactive and fun learning environment. Presenters can gain and retain audience attention, help increase knowledge retention, and confirm audience understanding of material presented.

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Learning Events vs Environments: A Case for Putting the Learner in the Center

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Indeed, this rings true beyond K-12, for a broader range of learning initiatives. Time and again, focusing on formal learning events alone turns out to be myopic.

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Emerging Trends in Interactivity that Training Professionals Cannot Ignore

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Composite Applications with Widgets In web-based learning environments, composite apps are a big value-add. So, if you are a learning professional, these are some of the things you need to aware of and there are several technologies you can take advantage of. I recently completed a leadership development program for 40 managers.

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MOOC Evaluation at Harbinger

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

We realized that MOOCs in corporate learning is definitely a must to consider where people like to learn continuously based on their requirements and interests, rather than a learning environment controlled by the managers. Base Camp learning culture MOOC'

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