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Learn vocabulary, languages, history, science, trivia and just about anything else. Multimedia, Spaced practice. Create courses w/ custom content. PC or Mac

"While self-reported learning style preferences do exist, designing instruction to accommodate them has no basis."

1. Compfight 2. Openclipart 3. Getty Images 4. Free Digital Photos 5. Wikimedia Commons

Injecting even a touch of humor can help engage learners.

Some Basics of Gamification: ways to use gaming elements to enhance learning, with examples.

The underlying reason for failure to retain knowledge is that our brain is simply designed to forget information it perceives as insignificant. To retain the information, we need multiple opportunities to review the information periodically. This is the foundation of the spaced learning theory.

This learning activity using Google Forms was developed by an 8th grade teacher, but ideas could be extended to other contexts.