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Not All Micro-Learning is Created Equal

ej4 eLearning

Contrast that with traditional training, which often occurs in 45 minute lectures or marathon workshops.) And many successful webinars, video tutorials, and product tours run around 10 minutes long. Filtering out advertisements and marketing pieces, and looking at more educational content only, one gets a different picture.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

If a customer service agent has had to sit through dry lecture videos that were filmed ten years ago, which are now online, that may be their image of eLearning.” Digitec, Instructional Designer, Jennifer Ritter wrote a blog about this recently explaining, “I now realize that I was raised with game-based learning.

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Understanding the Learning Curve: Why It’s Important in Employee Training and Development

Infopro Learning

Share resources like articles, videos, or online tutorials to give them an overview of the topic. Incorporate a mix of approaches, such as: Lectures or presentations for auditory learners. Here are practical strategies to flatten the learning curve and ensure effective skill development: 1. Demonstrations for visual learners.

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Characteristics of a Virtual Classroom

LearnDash

A traditional lecture is an example of this type of learning, and has been used for hundreds of years. Virtual classrooms can be used to deliver lectures, or even tutorials online. Synchronous learning is a learning environment where everyone takes part in the learning at the same time. Accessible.

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Online Education Is about More Than Video

LearnDash

I suspect this practice has its roots in the kind of remote courses that predated the internet—ones where learners would purchase a textbook and a series of video lectures. Anyone who has tried to learn a subject this way can probably tell you how dull recorded lectures can be. Use it to provide “how-to” tutorials or demonstrations.

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7 Ed-Tech Tools You Can Use Today

LearnDash

There are pre-recorded lectures, interactive exercises, and live lesson screencasts. Skill-builder Websites - These sites have a focus on improving skills in a very specific topic through online video instruction and step-by-step tutorials. Sites like Lynda.com and Codecademy are good examples.

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Top 10 +1 Instructional Game Design Best Practices

Kapp Notes

If the game does seem complicated or is tough to get started, provide a tutorial round or a practice round that does not count for scoring, leveling or winning. Passive game play is no better instructionally than a lecture. Complicated games confuse and frustrate learners. And/or create a short video explaining how to play the game.

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