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How to Measure Online Course Effectiveness

CourseArc

Instructional designers aim to provide the necessary content to accomplish these goals, but sometimes the delivery of a course or training isn’t very effective. Luckily, there’s a proven process that helps you measure the effectiveness of your courses and start to fix any problems in their delivery. LEVEL 1: Reaction.

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What is authentic assessment?

Learning with e's

These have their uses, but there is much more available in the assessment repertoire of effective teachers. I asked whether nurses wrote essays when they were working in clinical areas, and was told, no - they generally wrote reports and case studies. I recently worked as a visiting scholar at a university that trained nurses.

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Generation next

Learning with e's

It's safe to claim that much of higher education is firmly rooted in the past , reflecting colonial history, traditional values and 20th (or even 19th) Century pedagogies. This might be seen as a generalisation, because there are some pockets of innovative pedagogy to be found in every large education institution. Unported License.

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The big switch

Learning with e's

If you subscribe to a kind of pedagogy where you believe that facilitating learning is more effective than direct instruction, you will probably recognise the potential. Pedagogy is (or really should be) about creating spaces and opportunities that are conducive to good learning. We call them seminars. Unported License.

Pedagogy 101
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Going to the wall

Learning with e's

It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods. In effect, the boards have been used as substitutes for the old dry wipe boards and projection screens. Unported License.

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Flipping the teacher

Learning with e's

For centuries, innovative teachers have been trying to find other more effective methods of pedagogy that can take the place of lecturing and instruction. Ensure that each student has time to study a specific aspect of the course, and prepares teaching materials. This is not new of course. We learn by teaching. Unported License.

Pedagogy 111
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Tablets: The correct prescription

Learning with e's

A recent meta-study commissioned by the Commonwealth of Learning confirms what many teachers already suspected. These findings are supported by another, larger meta-study of 41 qualitative reports from the same period, which showed that tablets and mobile devices are most effective when used in student-active contexts (Tamim et al, 2015b).