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Ask Ethan: How Do I Choose the Right e-Learning Modality?

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Instructional designers have a myriad of delivery modalities to choose from when creating a learning module. There are many ways to create an effective learning module. In general, the more nuanced and open-ended the desired performance, the more you would want to take advantage of a live, responsive facilitator. Final Thoughts.

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Once, When I was at Band Camp…

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Stories provide an organizing structure that makes the subject matter more relevant to learners and can maintain learners' interest throughout a lengthy module or course; the stories lend personal importance that can be lost when dealing with abstract facts and rules. We remember stories.

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Erase Boring e-Learning: Show What You Know

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Lifted from its original context, this strikes me as a particularly significant principle to guide the design of e-learning modules. Now I want to make clear, I haven’t actually seen, read, or even have much interest in the topic, but the subtitle captures some essential wisdom about learning: What We Cannot Show, We Do Not Know.