Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

You hear of authoring tools that provide interactivity building features. Of late, some vendors in the e-learning tools industry have started using the word 'interactivity' in a rather loose way. This leads some users to believe they are getting course authoring and interactivity building in one package!

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Besides, Raptivity now provides a HTML5 preview of your work - another first in the industry. Help is embedded in the right places, so users can access support materials, other users'' work samples and community from the application. The descriptions of interactions include useful tips on how and where you can use them.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

DECEMBER 31, 2012

Using characters to provide opening and closing remarks, intermittent summaries as well as dialogs. Using games such as crosswords, TV shows and board games and to make learning fun and exciting. Simulations where user gets to play a role in a situation and apply knowledge to decision making.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The new version of Raptivity provides that too - in the customization screen. Raptivity now shows helpful information such as recommended image size, sound bit rate, video format, size, frame rate etc alongside the customization window. Raptivity's productivity enhancements span across the entire product usage experience.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 20, 2012

Even better the tool could intelligently select an alternative media from multiple media provided. One way for an m-learning tool to create value would be to alert the user when a non-support type is referred to. Both the creation and consumption of m-learning content on mobile devices is substantially different from traditional e-learning.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 14, 2010

However, we don’t always provide equivalent technology-based interaction in its place. What we do provide is menus and buttons. They provide a context that is sufficiently engrossing and invite action from the learner. Once the learner acts, they provide a response and build a two-way dialog.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

APRIL 15, 2011

It responds to the learner's needs and provides helpful guidance. Make the avatar instructionally relevant – it should fulfill the interactivity needs of a learner. It should augment content, not be the content. Avatar should support 2-way interaction. It is not just a video or a cartoon.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

When the goal goes beyond assessment, you need a wider variety of interactions, such as the ones Raptivity provides. They will get fatigued and bored with simple interactions. Those are fine for assessments. How did the conference attendees respond to Raptivity? VG: The response was very good.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2014

These objects could be natural or man-made which would be provided with an IP address and the ability to transfer data over a network. Though there are a lot of ways in which the IOT has been defined, I understood it as a network of physical objects accessed through the internet.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2007

Free navigation is easily provided with hyperlinks and menus, but there is a risk of the learner wandering away from the course page. Just as Google Earth does, 3D objects like a cube, a pyramid or a sphere provide non-conventional navigation metaphors to the learner. Is there a way to balance freedom and context? Yes, there is.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 9, 2012

Raptivity Essential provides a sufficient selection of templates for a novice user to get a hold of interactive learning. What is the significance of Raptivity Essential?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 20, 2010

Blog posts provided a guiding theme and then pointed to a web resource such as a YouTube video, or a podcast or a news story article or a case study. In yet another case, a blog post would provide a framework for various leadership traits, and participants would be asked to reflect and decide how they view themselves.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 30, 2011

Clickers are no good for webinars.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 22, 2009

The speaker can control the amount of interaction The interaction serves a specific purpose: energizes the audience, creates fun, provides a breather and so on Everyone has a way to participate The interaction is organized and guided by some kind of a structure. Clearly, what is needed is a way to present, where four conditions are satisfied.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2008

For best learning outcomes social interactions must fulfill these conditions: Take place in the context of the presented course page Allow learners to contribute and voice opinions Provide educators the flexibility and control over interactions as well as content.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 17, 2010

Imagine a set of questions the learner has to answer, based on the information provided. Active learning is a great way to achieve comprehension, application and analysis- three key middle layers of Bloom's taxonomy - in adult learning. In this post, I give a few examples. Let's deal with comprehension first. Here is a trick.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 30, 2009

A digital cinema provider from Hollywood will soon start using Raptivity for sales presentations. The owner of a Spanish humanities and technology web site has plans to use Raptivity for enhancing his web portal. Raptivity , the e-learning tool? Yes, and no.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 31, 2009

I don't always provide immediate feedback - sometimes I delay it so the learner can observe the consequences of mistakes. Excessive guidance and tracking can actually shut down communication, depriving us of a key goal of interactivity. Are you a helicopter instructional designer? Take this simple quiz.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

To answer this, Gladwell provides another interesting data set. Is it because the disadvantaged kids aren’t as smart? Or is it because somehow the schools do a better job with kids already in a position of advantage? Kids took these tests not just at the end of every academic year. They also took them at the beginning of the school year.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MAY 31, 2007

Someone asked where to get more information on Silverlight, and before I could answer, another participant had provided a web site link. There is little inhibition, no noise and no interruption when someone raises a question. Besides, there is a great opportunity to help each other. The way this back channel worked was amazing.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

The language must be such that it has a low barrier for learning, that it facilitates learning by providing embedded learning objects (like the Turtle in Logo), and that it does not snare the user in a complex process of edit-compile-run cycle of industry-standard languages. Q: So, which programming language do you use? We use Logo.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

MARCH 26, 2009

You can also develop your own Flash program with due care, so that it provides a way for other users to customize interactions. One method is to use a tool such as myRaptivity, which allows your Flash program to be written in such a way that other users can use Raptivity to create custom variations of your IM's. What is the payoff?

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

With this, course developers are increasingly feeling the need to provide additional information elements within interactions. Templates can however be limiting when it comes to providing additional content elements. This feature set provides advanced flexibility to Raptivity.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JANUARY 27, 2014

When effectively incorporated, interactions make learning more engaging and memorable, provide a change of pace, and improve outcomes. Course authors typically use ready templates of such interactions, and add content as appropriate. In the classroom environment, too, there is a need for enhancing outcomes.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

JULY 1, 2014

The key is to provide an ability to create semantically structured content through proper community collaboration. [Maheshkumar] We are getting to the goal in pieces like enriched tracking specifications, delivery mechanism, etc. It will enable maximum reuse and re-purposing. Social networking has to be given equal consideration.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Because you need only a single project for developing the content, the single source content solution provides great cost efficiency. Just develop the content once, and then push it from LMS, as is usual in the case of eLearning delivery, to be accessed by multiple devices and their browsers.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2009

The instructor has the ability to look up correct answers, provide helpful hints and mark right or wrong answers. Once in the classroom, the game allows the instructor to form competing groups of students, and rotate turns among them to answer questions within a fixed time limit, in an attempt to win a house.

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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

In his prediction concerning authoring tools he points out the possibility of authoring tools providing 'publish to HTML5' option. Gadd follows this up with another post titled New mlearning Authoring Offerings - Wave #1 where he discusses two leading tools that have already provided HTML5 capability.

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