Ray was addressing the topic of creating 'Lecture free Webinars'. However, boring lectures kill webinars. Hence the topic of no-lecture webinars makes sense, huh! Introducing Medusa The lecture in webinars is 'Medusa'. How do deal with the lecture in Medusa? This evening I attended a TrainingMag Network webinar by Ray Jiminez - Chief Architect at Vignettes Learning. Webinars are great. They save time and accelerate learning. Most webinars are extensions of talking heads clicking their PowerPoints to death. No wonder many learners multi-task and drop out. MORE >>

'People often like to compare game-based learning to lectures. Many people don’t realize there are also different types of lectures and most lecture types are not that good. In fact research has shown that while lectures are good for imparting factual knowledge, they are not that effective at imparting much more than facts. Here is a list of lectures types gathered from research conducted by Brown & Bakhtar who found five styles of lecturing they identified through cluster analysis of responses of. They want to know “which is better?” MORE >>

It stimulated a lot of dialogue (exactly what a lecture should do), during the talk on Twitter, and afterwards, both on Donald's blog post and elsewhere (eg. Donald's been debating the merits of lectures for years, it's probably a good idea to look at these posts to get some background: [link]. Some key points to take away from the discussion: The lecture is the default - so we need to abolish the job description: "lecturer". We don't need lectures, we need performers who turn learning into a live and enjoyable experience". Doug Belshaw's. link]. link]. MORE >>

Emerging Technology emerging trends and technologies instructor led training Training emerging technologies instructor-led training interactive lectures white paperThis is an excerpt from  Sharon Boller’s  newest white paper,  Learning Trends, Technologies and Opportunities. The white paper describes today’s learning landscape… then predicts 7 trends for the next 12 – 18 months. Here is Trend 5: This trend loosely goes with the trend of gamifying things, but the focus is on tools facilitators can use when presenting live workshops, webinars, etc. Very cool!). MORE >>

ReadWriteWeb and New Scientist picked up on a preliminary piece of research that suggests better retention and learning is achieved through using an audio podcast of a lecture than actually attending it.To find out how much students really can learn from podcast lectures alone - mimicking a missed class - McKinney's team presented 64 students with a single lecture on visual perception, from an. Tags: podcasts notetaking iTunes lectures MORE >>