Would you trust a dentist who’s never worked on a live patient before? Hire a mechanic who hasn’t worked on a car engine? Perhaps you’d feel more at ease with a pilot who’s logged thousands of hours…
One of the most effective ways to nurture the 21st century’s trademark skills is by creating opportunities for kids to do what kids do naturally: play. ...
Are you confused with terms relating to eLearning? Expand your vocabulary by learning these 8 commonly used eLearning terms.
"Instructional methods are used by teachers to create learning environments and to specify the nature of the activity in which the teacher and learner will be involved during the lesson. While particular methods are often associated with certain strategies, some methods may by found within a variety of strategies. Instructional strategies determine the approach a teacher may take to achieve learning objectives." Jim Lerman's insight: Be sure to go to the url indicated at the bottom of the infographic; it takes readers to a website that provides complete descriptions of each of the instructional strategies names in the graphic. A very comprehensive list. Educators of any level of experience are likely to find something new and useful here.
Improve your instructional design with adult learning theories. Discover the key theories and their application on the Shift E-Learning blog!
If you need to know about the value of design thinking, start by downloading the eBook How Design Thinking Is Transforming The Learning Experience
Whether you’re administering elearning or live classroom training the end-goal...
32 Characteristics Of High-Performing Classrooms
An infographic for Instructional designers: 8 steps for an Awesome eLearning Storyboard. Make your next course with these steps. Happy eLearning!
If you're new to the industry, the ADDIE Model Infographic will get you up to speed, introducing you to the methodology and showing you how it can help you.
As coaches and facilitators of professional learning, our work revolves around providing teachers with constructive feedback that will help them improve their instruction. This process makes good sense to us and we likely feel pretty comfortable with it. I wonder though, how comfortable we feel with asking for and receiving feedback on our own practice? […]
Earlier this week, I broke out the cool new pens I got for Christmas and got to work on putting together my coaching cycle schedule for this next quarter. Creating new schedules throughout the year is a cool opportunity for us coaches. It’s kind of like having a mini beginning-of-school-year kick off more than just […]
An eye-catching resource packed full of action verbs that define each stage of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Bloom's Taxonomy verbs include Evaluate: Criticize, Judge, Defend, Appraise, Value, Prioritize, Revise, Argue, Support, and Re-design.
Download an 11X17 version of the Developing 21st Century Critical Thinkers Infographic by Mentoring Minds.com. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) , ManufacturingStories, Ann Vega
This infographic offers 10 tips for designing learner-centered training.
Guiding inquiry-based learning centers learning on a solving a particular problem or answering a central question.
How teachers plan – This is one of the more interesting ‘black boxes’ in education. There are few studies of it, yet it is clearly one of the most vital elements of the enterprise. Winging it is sometimes fun, but it’s a bad way to run a family, a business, or a classroom. Marzano reports […]
This infographic presents twelve ways you can shake up and energize learning with tried and true instructional strategies.
Just what is "gamification," and how can it help your dental practice? It's a new marketing technique that engages patients in a new and exciting way, and encourages them to visit...
I’m a teacher. Now what do I do? There are several ways to engage learners in the classroom. Here are a few ideas if you get stuck. Additional resources: ~Mia
In response to all of the attention given to the flipped classroom, I proposed The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education in which the …
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14 Interesting Pieces Of Research On Microlearning. Microlearning is short bursts of development normally in the form of video format. Is it all hype?
What I love about Design Thinking is that it's flexible. There are teaching approaches out there that tell us what to do, but it makes more sense for every teacher to teach differently every year, because we each get different students. Think about it. We don't treat all our friends and family the same. Our interactions with them are largely based on our experience of who they are and what makes them tick. Teaching is the same way. One size fits all approaches do not work. The challenge is that, in the grand scheme of things, we only know our students for a short time. However, personalization of education is not a fad; it's a thing. So. let's use the Design Thinking Cycle (Empathy, Definition, Ideation, Prototyping, Testing) to improve Teaching, shall we? Via Ariana Amorim
What’s the difference between Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and traditional classroom education? This chart shows how they differ.
Mobile technology erodes the traditional classroom. Truly 'mobile' learners should disrupt non-flexible curriculum.
The Using the 5 Cs for eLearning Visuals Infographic presents a simple approach to creating effective visuals for eLearning by considering the 5 Cs.
Over the past few months, I’ve had the pleasure of sharing some excellent UDL success stories from our readers (linked at the bottom of this post, in case you missed them). Today I want to put UDL success in the context of a more specific framework, with the help of a great new book on […]
Planning backward will change what and how you teach. Radically. It will challenge you. It might even frustrate you at first. It will also result in instruction that is cohesive, aligned, and meaningful. When I started planning backward, using the Understanding by Design® method it transformed m
Intrigued by game-based learning, but not sure where to begin?
Gamification has tremendous potential in the education space. How can we use it to deliver truly meaningful experiences to students? Learn all about the impact of gaming on education in this infographic.
Event # 8 Now your students have performed something to demonstrate understand. But how do you assess that performance? Was the assessment of the performance reliable and valid? Try these 27 tips t…
The 5E Model of Science Instruction was exactly what I needed to streamline the process of planning and implementing a student-led inquiry-based learning
To avoid giving your students more than their working memory can hold, you need to know why cognitive overload happens – and how to overcome it.
Please welcome Lauren Poinier to the blog today! She's sharing with us her questioning strategies for differentiating instruction and reaching all learners in the classroom. She understands the challe
As part of my summer reading this year I read the recently published book, “The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation” by Elena Aguilar. Elena writes a great blog over at edweek that I enjoy reading so I knew her book would be a good one to spend some time with. She offers […]
Engaging Your Students in eLearning can be rather difficult. By following these tips presented in the eLearning Infographic, you should be able to create an engaging online course.
