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Gagne Nine Events of Learning

Tips for conducting a focus group.

"Level 1 of the Kirkpatrick training evaluation model attempts to establish whether the conditions were right for learning to take place. This involves capturing participants' reactions to the training programme, including reactions to its relevance, training methods, trainers, qualification and assessment methods, facilities and administration etc."

Comprehensive list of Learning Theorists.

Creating Branching simulations

Here are the results from a survey of industry peers to provide insight into how long it takes to develop one hour of instruction for various delivery methods and factors that impact development. A comparison of findings from 2003 with new data and best practices for reducing risk is discussed.

Lesson Plans

A learning style is supposedly a mode of learning that is most effective for an individual. It supposedly helps to improve learning results. Why does this myth persist? Twenty-five years of research on this and related themes have not provided any form of conclusive evidence that matching the form of instruction to learning style improved learning or even attention.

As discomfiting as it may be for content creators, a properly-prepared set of visuals for a presentation will fail as leave-behind collateral. Your slides are supposed to be incomplete; they are supposed to be no more than the tease for the words that you will speak. If they say too much, they inhibit your ability to tell the story.

The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling[1] book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable. One of the main premises of the book is that although people are often keen to blame themselves when objects appear to malfunction, it is not the fault of the user but rather the lack of intuitive guidance that should be present in the design.

Action Words for Blooms Taxonomy

Free PowerPoint Designs! Beautiful ones, but remember - its the human behind the software that matters. Bad PowerPoint doesn't create itself.

Anyone who is actively involved with instructional design has at some point used the ADDIE model (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) for their course development. This model is one of (if not the) most popular structures used by training designers today.

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Research about using blending learning design models