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5 Ways to Bring Contextual Learning to Your Association

Association eLearning

Are we talking about a car in an action movie, a firework, or some leftovers that were microwaved for too long? Then it exploded. By itself, this sentence doesn’t say much. What exploded and was it supposed to? Why did it blow up? Without context the information is meaningless. eLearning works the same way.

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Twine, Storytelling, Freelancing: ID Links 11/1/21

Experiencing eLearning

This is a summary of a project at the University of Toronto using Twine to create an educational game, plus an overview of Twine. These plans are a few years old, so a few details have changed, but the overall structure makes sense. Using Twine for Classroom Engagement – ACTion.

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Blended Learning: Not your Mother’s, Grandmother’s, or Possibly Even Older Sibling’s Training

Association eLearning

Remember the days when you looked forward to field trips to the planetarium, hovering over a formaldehyde preserved frog with your lab team, or seeing the movie version of Lord of the Rings on a Friday afternoon? Make no mistake, today blended learning goes beyond merely tagging on a movie or performing a Web Quest on the internet.

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Using Educational Animation to Improve eLearning

Origin Learning

Educational animations are animations produced for the specific purpose of fostering learning. They use basic elements to explain a process, concept or abstract idea; and they may range from being primitively simple to a full-blown animated movie. Using educational animations is pretty easy and fun.

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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of PowerPoint

Raptivity

“CUE MUSIC FROM THE MOVIE, THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY” ENTER POWERPOINT The Good Readily available, since it is included in the Microsoft Office software and the most widely used tool for putting together content for presentations Easy [.].

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Achieving Learning Flow with Your Online Member Education

Association eLearning

This references the growing trend among Netflix subscribers who use the on-demand television and movie steaming service to watch entire television series in one sitting. Use these three conditions provided by Csíkszentmihályi Mihály, the “father of flow,” in your online education to help your members achieve learning flow: 1) Goals.

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The Unstoppable Force of M-Learning

LearnDash

One study indicated that roughly 38% of all children under the age of eight have used a cell phone, or other mobile device to play games, use apps, watch videos, TV shows an movies. In reality, more than 80% of the best-selling paid apps in the iTunes Store’s education category are targeted towards children.