I recently caught a 7 year old boy playing two games on the web. One was Rook’s Binocular and the other was Avian Resurrection. Both these games have two things in common: Birds Instructional Value I was amazed at the 7 year old kid’s knowledge about birds and animals. I was amused how easily he [...]
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I have gone through a number of e-learning courses which are designed using a combination of text, images and of course voice over. However there is an inherent flaw in the way these courses are designed and most often these courses fail to engage you to the fullest. The reasons that you may not like [...] B.J. Schone has an interesting post here on creating interactive timelines to teach facts. He has got some really good ideas which can be used while designing e-learning courses, Read the post now! Yesterday I found this game called Fantasy Health Minister. The introductory page suggested to me that the game essentially is a simulation where my objective would be to improve the health of the nation and increase my political popularity while staying under budget – and keeping the people depending on me happy. Wow! I was [...] Cathy Moore has written a very interesting article on course menu and navigation design in her blog. We all are used to having the Next button in our e-learning courses, to help learners scroll through the course. Instead of simply having the Previous and Next buttons and allowing the learner to go through the course [...] B. J.Schone has got a really nice post in his blog. Please read it here. The Scattered Steps learning interaction is one of the most commonly used interactive exercises in e-learning. As Schone points out these interactive exercises can be implemented using Flash, Captivate or even Powerpoint. In fact I have used them too while [...] This weekend I played the demo version of the game called Wedding Dash, very similar to the game, Diner Dash. Surprisingly all these games follow the same logic yet provide variety. Coming to the game Wedding Dash, I shall use this game to explain the concept of trail and error that Professor Kapp mentions as [...] I just found this website called www.thiagi.com This website has loads of information on game based training. Check this section : http://www.thiagi.com/freebies-and-goodies.html for free resources on game based training. Engaging Interactions for E-learning by B.J. Schone is a very interesting ebook that gives you 25 strategies to make your elearning course interactive. I found the strategies very useful. Hope you feel the same too. I found this short course on eclipses and am actually impressed with the instructional strategies used. The strategy used is not uncommon, yet it’s engaging. Here is a brief overview of the course: The course begins with a short note. This note is kind of an attention grabber that initiates the subject/topic (eclipses). Soon after [...] |
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