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"In today's ADD society, textbooks are pleasantly single-dimensional and finite," says Jeff Olson, vice president of research for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, whose team conducted observational studies. "When I asked study participants why they didn't use their laptops to look something up, I heard some version of 'because that's my distraction.' "
A host of research over the past decade has shown that even the option to click hyperlinks to related material can create confusion and weaken understanding.
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Nice and elegant implementation of Moodle Virtual Learning Environment by The Open University of UK, loaded with the bunch of courses made available as open content.
Join educators sharing and networking with other educators. Our focus is on the community discussion surrounding learning resources facilitated by Web 2.0 technologies. Make suggestions, highlight best practices, add academic standards correlations, give helpful hints and more.
Aim
The aim of the activity is to inform and educate practitioners in the FE and HE sectors in the UK some of the key issues about using copyrighted material in a digital online environment and the role of JISC Collections (and the JISC Model licence) in the provision of solutions to these issues.
Audience
The activity is targeted at teachers and lecturers in FE and HE. It will also be useful for curriculum managers, learning technologists, learning resources staff and any staff who deal with digital resources.
Determine the current state and needs of the learner 2. Define the end goal of instruction 3. Develop a learning intervention to assist in the acquisition of new skills, knowledge or expertise.
Level 1: Reactions. Evaluate participants' satisfaction with the learning intervention.
Level 2: Learning and Level 3: Behavior. What do participants know they didn't know before? How are they using knowledge in their jobs? What is the learning and performance effect of the intervention?
Level 4: Organization-level benefits. Has the development of higher levels of domain knowledge improved organizational productivity?
Kirkpatrick's model aside, the course materials, objectives, delivery, test items, audience profile – all of the instructional components in fact – need to be evaluated. Assessing these elements regularly is especially important for repeating courses or asynchronous courseware. As an example, if substantial majority (70% or 80% of the learners) fail a criterion test item, it would be reasonable to look again at the design of the related piece of instruction.
The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world.