Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

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A Podcast for Training Magazine

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Consider PowerPoint presentations – many of them are simply quite boring. The best way to enhance training with interactivity is to re-use interactive templates that are customizable. You pick a template, fill in the content, customize the look, tweak the behavior and publish the interactive object and include it in your course.

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Where Did YawnBuster Come from?

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Research by eLearning Guild shows PowerPoint to be the tool most commonly used by trainers. It became clear then, that the best way to provide this technology was as Flash templates for PowerPoint. Trainers could choose from icebreakers, activators, group exercises, energizer games and closers.

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Learning Interactions in PowerPoint: Add Engagement to Instructor-Led Training

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Course authors typically use ready templates of such interactions, and add content as appropriate. Since PowerPoint is one of the most commonly used presentation tools, I will limit my comments to a typical PowerPoint presentation here. This free tool installs a menu for interactions inside PowerPoint.

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Computer-based Games in Classrooms: Leveraging the Instructor

Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

Facilitated Group Activities are computer-based templates that are implemented using platforms such as Flash and PowerPoint. An instructor can quickly and easily create and facilitate custom activities such as games using these templates. Using this approach is a two step process.

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