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Vikas Joshi on Interactive Learning
We can learn a lot from the way children learn - the shortest path to learning is interactive. This blog discusses paradigms and technologies that infuse interactivity in learning. Be it e-learning, classroom instruction or social learning, a learning modality must not reduce learners to bystanders. Learners deserve better, and we must get them to join the party. Visit the blog at http://learningharbinger.blogspot.com/. |
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Today Business Week's website carries an article on how more teachers are trading in textbooks and lectures for interactive learning software to engage students.
The article cites Kaplan University, San Francisco State University and Philips Children's Medical Ventures - all reporting tremendous student satisfaction resulting from interactive eLearning.
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Game-based learning is gaining wide acceptance in corporate and academic e-learning. The use of games in classrooms, however, is still limited and follows traditional game formats.
One reason for the lack of momentum in classroom game usage could be the dependence of traditional classroom games on the instructor for successful facilitation.
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"Are you shopping for a ginger bread cookie or a wedding cake?"
That was the question Seema Chaudhary posed, to highlight the difference between template-based rapid interactions and traditional custom interactions.
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The World of Interactivity
What does it take to get people involved and having fun while doing serious things on the web? This blog explores the state of the art of interactivity, its history and its future. Visit the blog at http://interactivityworld.blogspot.com. |
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Ellen Finkelstein, the noted Presentation Guru, recently conducted a webinar with a catchy title: Present interactively — your audience expects it!
Everyone kind of knows that presentations should be interactive - this webinar showed how to do that. Ellen stressed that we need to keep the audience, not slides, as the focus of the presentation. Some of the ideas she presented were:
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In this post, I list the various levels of interactivity seen in presentations. (Note: In this post, by presentation, I mean .PPT, .PPTX or similar computer-generated slide deck, and not the act of presenting.)
Level 0: Text Bullets and Pictures
This is where most presentations are today. Each slide displays a bunch of bullets with static text, and sometimes there are a few pictures, and you go from one slide to the next.
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For those of you who enjoyed my earlier post on interactive web sites, I have some good news to share. A new article, titled Interactivity in Web Design: A Beginner's Guide has appeared on Desizn Tech. This article is a convenient starting point for those of you who need a quick primer on interactive web design.
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