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How to Create Effective Test Questions

CourseArc

Since online learning often separates teachers from learners across time and distance, we rely on evaluations – in the form of tests, quizzes and assessments – to judge each student’s successful comprehension of the content (and to judge how well the course designers presented their information). But what makes a good test question?

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5 Ways Social Learning Can Lead to an Effective Remote Onboarding Process

Obsidian Learning

Image licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Fast forward to more recent history, and we’ve gone from gleaning survival skills from our social group to trying to figure out the most effective means of transmitting skills to individuals new to our organizations and integrating them into our workplace cultures.

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12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design

CourseArc

Instructional design is the thoughtful application of design aspects — like color theory, typography, and user experience — to create educational resources. Guide to e-Learning: Building Interactive, Fun, and Effective Learning Programs for Any Company (by Michael Allen) . 12 Helpful Resources for Instructional Design.

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How to Make Sure Your Course Meets Its Learning Objectives

CourseArc

Scientists, economists, accountants, and mathematicians all have one thing in common: they all deal in “absolutes.” ” They follow rules, theories, or laws governing the objectives they espouse, and they measure the outcomes of their efforts against those objectives. Building Achievable Learning Objectives.

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#BrainTime 1: Well I never

Learning with e's

Photo from Needpix This is the first in the #BrainTime series on the effects of time on the human mind. Those are strange enough, as are auditory hallucinations, as are the incredible effects of 4DX cinema Surround sound that you can experience at the big screen venues. But I've never discussed temporal effects in the human mind.

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Video for assessment

Learning with e's

They are there to confirm the level the student has achieved, but more importantly, they should be used to inform students how they should proceed to achieve higher grades next time. Below are a small selection of the videos my own second year teacher education students have made this week around the theme of learning theories.

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Making memories

Learning with e's

This is the first in a series of posts on important theories of learning and memory. Over the next few weeks I plan to work through the alphabet of psychologists to explain over 30 major theories that relate to teaching and learning. Each will also have a brief section on how the theory might apply to everyday teaching and learning.

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