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How to Draw Attention in Video Lectures

learnWorlds

Video lectures are one of the most promising teaching materials in online learning. Empirical evidence suggests that adding attentional cues in the instructor behavior guides learners’ visual attention and thus improves their learning performance in video lectures. The Need for Facial Expressions in Video Lectures.

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Technology for E-Learning: What You Need

LearnDash

While new technology is slowly making its way into the classroom (most instructors use PowerPoint slides rather than chalkboards), other innovations have yet to find their place (laptops in lecture halls are still a distraction more than a learning aid). Social media. Second, social media is a way to deliver content.

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Instructional Video Styles: Choose Your Own

learnWorlds

Before you even begin creating your instructional video , you will need to consider your lecture style. Animated lectures. Simple Slides Presentations. Presence overlapping the slides presentation. To understand how presence is constructed in lectures we must first refer here the terms agency and intersubjectivity.

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5 Ways to Use Educational Comics to Enhance Training

Learning Rebels

Forget about boring resources and PowerPoint slides that put your students to sleep faster than a lecture on tax law. Global Issues and Perspectives: Educational comics can address global issues like social justice, human rights, and environmental challenges from diverse cultural perspectives. 4: Creative Expression.

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How to Create College Courses That Are More Human

Clarity Consultants

Written lectures instead of spoken ones, self-advancing slide shows, and similar kinds of content feel automated, giving the impression that it’s a bot behind the course and not an instructor. Use Video Beyond the Lecture. Online courses that lack the human element can harm the learning experience.

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10 Important Elements of Training

Ed App

Nobody’s got time to sit through hour-long lectures. Sending PowerPoint slides just doesn’t work anymore. Sending PowerPoint slides just doesn’t work anymore. Learning tools like EdApp can turn learning materials like videos, images, PPT slides, and PDFs into microlessons. It’s a balancing act of quality and quantity.

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The Flipped Learning Revolution — Coming to a Brain Near You?

Dashe & Thomson

My colleague Jon Matejcek first covered it back in March in his article “ Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom.” Essentially, the idea is to upend the traditional teaching model of classroom lecture followed by personal practice at home. Nine months later, those numbers are 2,700 and 90.5

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