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How Audio Can Improve Online Learning

CourseArc

As the methods for seamlessly including rich media assets in eLearning continue to improve, instructional designers are finding creative uses of audio and video to supplement their text-based courses. Audio-enhanced lessons help make the learning experience much more robust, functional, and accessible. Optimizing Your Audio.

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Best Practices for Effective Online Course Development

Hurix Digital

Pedagogy has since long been an overly debated subject. The phenomenon of digitalization has arguably gifted pedagogy its greatest strength, i.e., online learning. Some do it only to earn a degree, while some others do it to take the next big jump in their career.

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How our learning theories shape how we use technology for learning

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I read a paper called Perspectives on learning and technology: A review of theoretical perspectives "This paper provides a review of literature pertaining to theoretical references on educational practice and technology from perspectives of learning theories of the 20th and 21st centuries." Somehow the traditional e-learning modules.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

Some examples of learning objects include Microsoft® Word or PowerPoint files, PDF files, video, and audio. Pedagogy- The art or practice of teaching. A learning object can be thought of as a small, self-contained re-usable unit of content that can be used to support learning.

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How the 8 Effects of Arts Education Are Changing Online Pedagogy, Part 3

Kadenze

For instance, it argues that adding text over audio and visual presentations may impede learning and is therefore redundant and unnecessary. It draws from Information Theory where redundancy refers to effects which deliberately seeks to produce ‘a surplus of signal over message’. Artistic redundancy points to an alternative approach.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with e's

For me, the worst enemy is bad theory. Bad theory, when accepted without challenge, can lead to bad practice. It's insidious, because bad theory that is accepted as fact without a full understanding of its implications, results in bad teaching, and ultimately, learners will suffer. Riener and Willingham again: ".learning-styles

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Video: The power and the story

Learning with e's

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. The first is cognitive load - i.e. the amount of information we can process and absorb through our primary senses; in this case, our audio and visual channels. I was appalled.