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Fostering Online Teamwork & Collaboration

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Fostering Online Teamwork & Collaboration

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We've streamlined our integration with Schoology, making it easier to install and use the OER Commons LTI App. Installation from the Scho...

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Visual Design for Distance Education Content: How Good Visual Design Helps Learning

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How good visual design can improve student learning in online courses.

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Principles of Best Practice in Online Education

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Principles of Best Practice in Online Education

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By Mary Helen Spear and Christina Sax
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Principles of Best Practice in Online Education

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Adapted from "Principles of Good Practice in Online Education" written by Mary Helen Spear, Prince Georges Community College, Christina Sax, University of Maryland University College. Retrieved October 13, 2011 from www.mdfaconline.org/presentations/BestPracticesGuide.doc. Table of Contents (Click here for a PDF version of this document) Principle 1: Encourage student-instructor contact and interaction.

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Assessment Techniques to Boost Performance

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Assessment Techniques to Boost Performance

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Mix and Match Your Assessment Techniques to Boost Performance Infographic

Mix and Match Your Assessment Techniques to Boost Performance Infographic

How do you typically measure learning? Do you find yourself using multiple-choice tests as your go-to strategy for assessing learners?

Of course, a well-designed multiple choice test can be effective in measuring performance, but there's more to it than just grades. Many benefits can be gained by assessing while the training is underway, too.

The two approaches are formally defined as:

Formative assessments, which are trainer or learner activities that assess and provide feedback during the learning process, and

Summative assessments, which use grades (or quantifiable data) to demonstrate learner growth after instruction

Ready to shake things up and give your learners a performance boost? Check out the Mix & Match Your Assessment Techniques to Boost Performance Infographic for ideas on how to mix and match assessment techniques for your next training program.

Formative Assessment Examples

Visual models

Verbal/written summaries

Peer activities

Self-assessments

Lists-charts and graphic organizers

Smmative Assessment Examples

Performance tasks

Written essays/reports

Oral presentations

Open book exams

Multiple choice tests

Participation tasks

Top performing companies and their L&D teams find it most beneficial to offer both formative and summative assessments. Not only are they able to improve overall performance measurement, but they are also able to provide a fuller learning experience for their training participants.
View aslo: Blended and Online Assessment Taxonomy Infographic
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How do you typically measure learning? Do you find yourself using multiple-choice tests as your go-to strategy for assessing learners? Of course, a well-designed multiple choice test can be effective in measuring performance, but there's more to it than just grades. Many benefits can be gained by assessing while the training is underway, too.

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The Secret of an Effective eLearning Course Infographic

The Secret of an Effective eLearning Course Infographic

Self-paced eLearning is in high demand on the worldwide market. According to studies, the market reached $46.9 billion in 2015. Millions of people around the world choose distant courses over traditional ones, but the problem is that not all the courses existing on the market are qualitative, well-designed and structured.

Frequently students waste money on the information they can easily find on the Internet. The design and development of a qualitative and not least an effective eLearning course is a complex process that requires careful data gathering, audience analysis, planning and constant corrections of mistakes.

How to create such courses? The Secret of an Effective eLearning Course Infographic highlights the main principles of effective course creation. The secret is unveiled!

1. Clear Navigation

Designing the course remember about carefully placed navigation buttons (play, next, previous, pause, replay), informational icons and home page link.

Avoid any distracting elements whether that be irrelevant images, illogical learning paths or outbound links that lead the user away from the course. A learner nowadays is easily distracted that is why there shouldn't be anything preventing them from studying.

Introduce understandable course logic.

Write clear headlines.

Provide guidelines not to let a user get stuck.

Explain specific terms.

Stick to the same design and navigation icons location though the course.

Read also: Effective eLearning Navigation: 5 Key Principles!
2. Careful Design

Provide each course slide with the title reflecting its main idea. One slide=one idea.

Once you've determined the main course objective follow it through the course (the course objective should be S.M.A.R.T).

The course should have clear description with outlined course goals. Before taking the course a student should know what to expect and what benefits they get from the course completion.

Estimate workload.

3. Audience Analysis

Remember that not all students have equal opportunities.

Apply different learning styles, personalize the learning and center it on the student.

Create courses that allow to practice analytics skills and creativity.

4. Interactivity and Engagement

Plain text - the last thing your course needs to possess. Long texts are difficult for comprehension and should be avoided. By adding interactivity to the courses, you help learners to go through the learning, practice and put knowledge to use.

To make the course interactive and engaging:

Apply gamification mechanism (According to Ambient research, game-based learning is expected to grow from $1.5 billion in 2012 to $2.3 billion in 2017).

Use real-life scenarios and simulations to allow users to improve real life performances.

Apply storytelling technique. People memorize stories better than bare facts and by adding stories into an eLearning course you add meaning to the data you want your learners to take a mental note of.

Practice collaborative learning. Create social communities to let users learn from one another, share experiences and knowledge.

Diversify the course with visual elements. The fact that visual information is processed by our brain 60 000 times faster than ordinary text leads to all-round usage of visual content in eLearning design. Animation, photos, images, infographics, videos and other types of visual content can be widely used to create appealing and engaging eLearning courses.

Give rewards to increase students' motivation.

Link course activities to their prior knowledge.

5. Assessment and Feedback

Extensive feedback features and reports, provided by most Learning Management Systems, give tons of information per analysis and clarify what goes wrong, why the course doesn't bring an expected result and/or a student falls behind.

5. Tools

When you choose an authoring tool or a Learning Management System pay attention to the functionality they provide, modernity and user-friendliness of interface, mobile adaptability.

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Netiquette Rules for Online Discussion Boards

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5 Tips for Streaming Media In Your Online Course

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If you are thinking of adding streamed audio and/or video presentations to your blended or online course, here are some things to consider.

1. Post complete text versions of the audio portion of the streamed presentations. My limited study suggests that student learning is most enhanced when students can study both streamed presentations and transcripts of the audio. You should encourage students to study both the presentations and the transcripts and advise them to avoid studying only the presentations.

2. Keep your presentations relatively short. I suggest keeping them under 15 minutes. If this is not sufficient to cover all the content for a given topic, then the content should be chunked at appropriate spots into several presentations. Each presentation should come with a table of contents that students can click on to navigate within the presentation.

3. Plan out the slide or video portion of the presentation first. This will allow you to focus on the main ideas that you want to emphasize, and it will provide you with an outline for developing the narration. You should make use of images to illustrate and represent ideas and arguments. This will allow you to present content in several modes.

4. Write out a script of the narration. Doing this will help you to organize your thoughts. It will also result in fewer audio mistakes, since you can add the narration by simply reading the script. Writing out the narration beforehand will also provide you with a text version of the narration that you can post to the course website.

5. Choose presentation software that allows you to easily edit the separate video and audio portions of the presentation and that in a few simple steps converts the presentation into a format for streaming over the Web.

Jerry Kapus is an associate professor in the Department of English and Philosophy at University of Wisconsin-Stout.
From Tips from the Pros - 5 Tips for Using Streaming Audio and/or Video, Online Classroom, May 2009.

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If you are thinking of adding streamed audio and/or video presentations to your blended or online course, here are some things to consider. Post complete text versions of the audio portion of the streamed presentations. My limited study suggests that student learning is most enhanced when students can study both streamed presentations and transcripts of the audio.

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Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric

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Blackboard Exemplary Course Program Rubric

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Online teaching presents a unique set of challenges that require clear definition of faculty performance. Research shows that specific strategies can support and enhance the teaching and learning process. In this online workshop offered 2/14/14, we examined and discussed best practices that will promote successful online experiences including planning and management, teaching techniques, and assessing and evaluating students.

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5 Instructional Design Mistakes to Avoid

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5 Instructional Design Mistakes to Avoid

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5 Instructional Design Mistakes You Can Avoid Infographic

5 Instructional Design Mistakes You Can Avoid Infographic

Everyone makes mistakes. Yes, even Instructional Designers! View the 5 Instructional Design Mistakes You Can Avoid Infographic to learn how you can avoid some common mistakes.

1. Too much on-screen text

A screen with a lot of text on-screen overwhelms the user and reduces the chances of retaining the information.

Incorrectly chosen assets.

Choose your assets wisely! An incorrect audio or an incorrect graphic can mislead users.

2. A cluttered screen

A poor screen layout might confuse learners instead of creating the required impact.

3. Lack of fluidity

Ensure that the topics flow smoothly from one to another.

4. Animation for the sake of animation

Don't move objects around just because you don't want a static screen. There should a specific purpose for moving objects.
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