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Learning Activities that Matter

Learning Rebels

Facilitator drives the length (and timing) of the exercise. Facilitator controls the timing of the exercise. In short: Participants create a graphic design of key points learned in previous lessons or previous day. Why this works: This allows groups to collaborate and determine the learning priority of lessons.

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10 Training Theories

Ed App

In fact, a study found that lessons prepared in bite-sized formats can help improve focus and lead to long-term retention among learners by up to 80% , as opposed to subject-heavy teaching methods. You can also get your creative juices flowing by creating a whole new story that is parallel to the current tasks of your employees.

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10.2 Strategic Ways to Ensure Learning Begets Performance Improvement

Wonderful Brain

A valuable exercise would seek to align the delta of between A and B as content now expressed by outcomes defined by the business and subsequently the ability of learning organization to tightly couple the content to media, methodology, trends, and technology. When interconnected a more complex system was revealed.

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Do you need to be an expert in microlearning to create micro-course?

Ed App

Start your lesson by establishing your objectives . Using bullet points is a foolproof way to outline your learning objectives, but it doesn’t hurt to get your creative juices flowing by coming up with other ways to provide this information. Here’s how: Stick to a lesson count. The short answer is no. Consistency is key.

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Wanted – Instructional Designer

eLearning 24-7

How many of you know why WBT was created or how it is different than CBT or why hummingbirds seem to swarm my feeder as though they are starved for juice? The terminology that ID folks use and frankly if you are building a course or whomever you have doing so, should use: Chapter, Page, Lesson or Scenario, some times folks use Assignment.

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48 Books Every Aspiring Chief Learning Officer Should Read

TalentLMS

This is the book you’ll want to keep on your desk and refer to when you’ve run out of juice or need a helping hand. Includes best practices for how to use visuals, audio, and text in your content; design examples and exercises; and an evaluation of simulations and games that are relevant to learning goals. Get it here. Get it here.

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10 Tools to Improve the Learner Experience

Ed App

With its intuitive authoring tool, you can put together beautiful, engaging and effective lessons that your learners will surely enjoy. Interacting with these highly focused learning bursts makes lessons much easier to digest for learners, increasing the likelihood of knowledge retention.