eLearning: Tips for Better Data Representation

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Digg Diggby AJ George I recently attended an Edward Tufte course on “Presenting Data and Information.” If you are unsure of who Edward Tufte is, I would suggest checking out his Wikipedia page. Here are some of the top tips I took away from the course: Stop Assuming Your Audience is Dumb Have you noticed that PowerPoint presentations [...]

21 November 2011  No comments

How To Train The People Behind The Skills

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Many organizations suffer the consequences of poor training in the simple procedures of soft skills. An organization’s success depends not only on hard technical skills, but its members’ ability to work together effectively. Success can be jeopardized by factors such as inter-staff politics, personal agendas, lack of energy and commitment to organizational goals, and poor [...]

22 December 2010  No comments

A ‘Stealth Assessment’ Turns to Video Games to Measure Thinking Skills RXZZSKAGTWT3

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Avoiding complications like test anxiety is one benefit of a method for evaluating difficult-to-capture abilities Sarah Kiewel for The Chronicle This computer game, ostensibly about ecology, can actually measure a variety of critical-thinking skills in students, says Valerie J. Shute, a professor at Florida State U., who is playing the game on her laptop. By [...]

8 November 2010  No comments

Pros and Cons of Rapid e-Learning

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Have you been blinded by the glare of Rapid eLearning Products yet? Yes No What’s your answer? I know that it’s difficult to answer this question objectively.  Don’t worry – let’s begin by first looking at some of its obvious advantages. Advantages of Rapid e-Learning: Rapid e-learning has multiple advantages. Here are 3 important benefits [...]

7 September 2010  No comments

Using Games in eLearning Part III – The Basic Structure of an eLearning Game

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In the previous two posts of this series, we discussed: Part I – How Games and eLearning came together? Part II – How Games are Different from Other Learning Activities? Let us now determine the structure of a game and see how this structure helps us establish an emotional connection between the learner and the [...]

31 August 2010  No comments

eLearning in the enterprise vs. eLearning in education

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I had an interesting chat with the IT teacher of Catholic High about eLearning. I’m following the subject for a very long time. In the early eighties I bought one of the earliest eLearning authoring tools called OpenICE from Dialog Video (a Swiss company which seems to be history now – the only trace of OpenICE [...]

30 August 2010  No comments

What is the Best/cost Effective E-learning Technology?

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E-learning technology has been evolving for quite some time now; it certainly has evolved through its slow but steady start. It is now growing in use and acceptance. The adaptation of e-learning in normal business training operations is increasing and more companies are experiencing the advantages of the technology. An ideal e-learning technology should start [...]

7 August 2010  No comments

Using Graphics To Improve Learning

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Although no one can say that visuals are always superior to words, the principle known as the picture superiority effect should convince you that using effective visuals will improve learning. The principle states that people generally have a better memory for pictures than for corresponding words. Research in many areas of learning, such as recognition, [...]

5 August 2010  No comments

Compliance Solution through Learning Management System

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The Learning Management System is an e-management system, which manages e-courses imparted to the online learners. The basic idea is to educate and train students who come from diverse fields. There are many online learning courses offered, which educate people about safer and better working environment. LMS is a software package that provides a reliable [...]

24 June 2010  No comments
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