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Patrice Prusko

Size 'Em Up! - Game Changers - 0 views

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    process/resources for creating games for learning
Patrice Prusko

Five Common Pitfalls of Online Course Design - Faculty Focus | Faculty Focus - 0 views

  • Reading your course material on a computer screen does not make for a memorable learning experience
  • Start by thinking about the kinds of learning experiences you want to create rather than letting the CMS define a more limited view of putting your course online.
  • In the old model of education, the instructor stood on the podium and served as the students’ revered and primary access point to the desired knowledge. Today, your students may be Googling your lecture topic while you speak and finding three sources that update or improve upon your presentation.
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  • . Your course should be a place where students come to participate in the connections that can be made between your subject and the outside world. Build these bridges into your online course materials, and become a facilitator of these important connections.
  • The interactivity and interconnectedness of computers provides increased opportunity for students to actively participate in their learning rather than passively consuming what you feed them.
  • peppering your online content with quick test-your-comprehension questions or developing exercises that ask students to generate data, capture and upload photos of evidence, research connections to real-world conditions, or create explanatory slideshows.
  • t. Consider creating wiki spaces in which groups of students can work together. Include assignments that require students to share ideas and resources, present topics to each other, and critique each other’s work. Use online communication tools and collaborative spaces to foster a class-wide web of supportive contact rather than settling into multiple parallel channels between you and each student.
Patrice Prusko

Shoyu Learning Solutions - Instructional Designer of Engaging Educational and Training ... - 0 views

  • Using thought-provoking questions together with video clips can benefit the learning experience
  • adding arrows in the video to highlight important content and stressing key words in the audio portion of the video to emphasize key information. Providing visual overlays or automatically zooming in on key elements
  • valuate the use of text and other information that are presented simultaneously with video. Too much extraneous information presented together with video can easily overload working memory
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  • Allowing users to control video pacing lets learners pause and repeat segments of the video in order to better learn the subject matter
  • students lost interest while watching 15-minute video segments and recommended that shorter video clips be used in training.
  • Keeping video clip lengths short not only can keep students focused but also can lead to better learning
  • learn best from short segments that are directly related to the lesson"
  • shorter, segmented video clips.
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