Archive for the ‘Instructional Design’ Category
Sample Collaborative Learning Tasks & Activities: Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning
Guided Reciprocal Peer Questioning The goal of this activity is to generate discussion among student groups about a specific topic or content area. Faculty conducts a brief (10-15 minutes) lecture on a topic or content area. Faculty may assign a reading or written assignment as well. Instructor then gives the students a set of generic […]
In: Collaborative Learning
Types of Groups and Groupwork
GROUPWORK Various names have been given to this form of teaching, and there are some distinctions among these: cooperative learning, collaborative learning, collective learning, learning communities, peer teaching, peer learning, reciprocal learning, team learning, study circles, study groups, and work groups. But all in all, there are three general types of group work: informal learning […]
In: Collaborative Learning, groupwork
Designing Multiple Choice Tests (validity, reliability, etc)
Here is a nice article on designing multiple choice tests
In: Instructional Design, Testing and Assessment
How can you tell whether a graphic will support or disrupt learning?
That’s one of the questions I had never asked myself before I started reading extensively on the topic of using visuals in e-learning. I used to think that it was always good to have a picture or a diagram next to any text, and it was the cost and creativity required that prevented me from […]
In: Instructional Design, Web Design
Collaborative Learning Techniques
That’s the title of the book by Barkley, Cross and Major, a copy of which I purchased a few months ago. The authors distinguish ca. 30 Collaborative Learning Techniques, or CoLTS for short, and divide them into five categories. Here is a nice list of them all to help jog your (and my) memory later, […]
In: Collaborative Learning
E-Moderating vs E-Learning Management by Objectives
I am gripped by the book I am reading now – it is unbelievable how much more advanced DL & VLE use is in some countries. They have been doing what I am just considering trying since the ’90s! The more I learn about TESOL & CMI, the more I tend to believe in the managerial […]
In: Instructional Design, Teacher Skills · Tagged with: e-moderating
