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5 Ways to Bring Contextual Learning to Your Association

Association eLearning

Are we talking about a car in an action movie, a firework, or some leftovers that were microwaved for too long? Making your association’s learning contextual will not only help your members make sense of information, it will also help them remember it. Let’s take a look at five ways your association can add context to its eLearning.

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Blended Learning: Not your Mother’s, Grandmother’s, or Possibly Even Older Sibling’s Training

Association eLearning

Remember the days when you looked forward to field trips to the planetarium, hovering over a formaldehyde preserved frog with your lab team, or seeing the movie version of Lord of the Rings on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake, today blended learning goes beyond merely tagging on a movie or performing a Web Quest on the internet.

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What does the 80's movie WarGames tell us about learning games?

Integrated Learnings

I recently watched the 1980's movie WarGames with my son. As a dad, I often use movies like that as an opportunity to teach something new to my son. As a child in 1983 I was captivated by the science and drama of the movie. The game Global Thermonuclear War has an associated learning goal.

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Achieving Learning Flow with Your Online Member Education

Association eLearning

Earlier this year, Associations Now wrote an article asking whether “binge learning” will become the new “binge watching.” This references the growing trend among Netflix subscribers who use the on-demand television and movie steaming service to watch entire television series in one sitting. Share this on Facebook. Tweet This!

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How to Create a Facebook Personality Quiz

ProProfs

Recently, a number of engaging quizzes have stirred up Facebook. Quizzes on popular TV shows such as Game of Thrones and Harry Potter are some of the most popular facebook quizzes that are smashing traffic records. They are generating more Facebook comment threads than any viral posts in the site’s history.

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Whither higher education? To the opera!

Allison Rossett

I often think about the condition of higher education, but was concerned not at all when I went to see “La Boheme” in a movie theater at the mall. Opera in a movie theater has much to offer: Technology delivers access to superb talent. My first movie opera cost $22. Opera in San Diego. What do alumni have to say?

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Ten Advantages of Mobile Learning

Origin Learning

Be it streaming movies on Amazon Prime Video and Netflix, clicking photographs, or playing addictive video games, the smartphone has evolved from just an instrument used to make calls and send and receive messages. They spend more time on their smartphones and send an insane amount of time on various social media websites.