ID and e-Learning Links (6/9/14)
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Lectures Aren’t Just Boring, They’re Ineffective, Too, Study Finds | Science/AAAS | News
Break up lectures every 10 minutes with active teaching techniques to improve student outcomes.
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Flipping the conversation at ElNet Workplace Learning Congress | Explorations in learning
Tanya Lau’s detailed explanation of her presentation on “Flipping the conversation” to performance and performance support rather than focusing only on formal training content. Includes notes on how she recorded and edited video on her smartphone for the presentation. She gives credit to my post on “Selling Storytelling” as part of the inspiration for her presentation because of how I scripted conversation around business objectives and measurement.
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How storytelling in training changes people. 5 elements of an effective story. | Training x Design
5 elements of a story structure: a beginning, middle, and end; a main character; the main character faces a challenge, the main character struggles, and the main character changes.
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My review of Adobe Captivate 8 – dbr-Training EN
Review of Cp8, focusing on the interface changes and new features for mobile learning
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Adobe’s summary of new features in Captivate 8, including responsive design for mobile learning and a major user interface change
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13 Questions to Ask When Scoping a Learning Development Engagement
A solid list of questions for prospective clients to help develop a proposal and determine the scope.
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Online Course Development: What Does It Cost? — Campus Technology
Time and cost estimates for online higher ed. The article and research are from 2004, and I expect these ratios have gone down in the last 10 years. The estimates here say it’s a 10:1 ratio for faculty time and about $25K per credit hour.
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Given the current campus infrastructure, personal knowledge tools, and the availability of digital content such as course cartridges, online cyber problems, and test banks, a recommended planning number today for experienced faculty is 10 hours per hour of instruction.
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Advances in Physiology Education
Open access journal with a number of articles on active learning, blended learning, problem based learning, etc. (My sister-in-law is the copy editor.)