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11 Dec

Showing My Work #8

Often when we talk about our work, we talk in terms of ‘what’ we did. The Showing My Work series of posts aim to also capture the ‘how’ something was done. E-Learning Heroes Challenge #57 - Preventing Workplace Violence. The brief: This week your challenge is to show scenario examples designed to prevent or address workplace violence. You can structure your demo any way you like - just be sure to include some type of scenario. For this challenge, I decided to use a branching scenario. This type of scenario gets learners involved in a situation and takes them down...
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05 Dec

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 9/12/14

Posted by Matt Guyan | OzLearn |

On Tuesday 9th December at 8:00pm AEDST (UTC +11hrs), @OzLearn is having its final monthly twitter chat for 2014. We are very fortunate to have Nigel Payne - @ebase - join us! You can read an introductory post for the chat by clicking here. To join the chat, go to Twitter at 8pm on 9/12, search for @OzLearn and join in the conversation (don’t forget to add #ozlearn to your tweets). There is also an OzLearn LinkedIn group where you can view the Storify of the chat afterwards. Hope you can join us for the chat!
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01 Dec

Working with Cognitive Load

Posted by Matt Guyan | eLearning, Instructional Design, Theory |

When I first started working as an eLearning instructional designer I became interested in the learning process and how people learn. I figured that if I knew more about information processing and learning, I could hopefully design more effective courses and materials. I came across a book called Efficiency in Learning: Evidence-Based Guidelines to Manage Cognitive Load by Ruth Colvin Clark, Frank Nguyen and John Sweller. In this book I discovered – among other things – Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) which is based on studies of human cognitive architecture – how we process and organise information. In our brains, we...
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23 Nov

Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design

Posted by Matt Guyan | Instructional Design, Motivation, Theory |

As an Instructional Designer, motivating learners is an important consideration because in reality learners are not always motivated to learn. They are busy, have other things to do, don’t see the course/session as being important or have had a bad learning experience in the past. I’ve written previously about motivation – Motivation and eLearning – which was about satisfying autonomy, competence and relatedness needs of learners. I’ve come across Dr John Keller’s motivational design model known as ARCS and thought it was worth sharing. The ARCS model comprises four major factors that influence the motivation to learn – Attention, Relevance, Confidence and Satisfaction. It’s...
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04 Nov

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 11/11/14

Posted by Matt Guyan | OzLearn |

On Tuesday 11th November at 8:00pm AEST (UTC +11hrs), @OzLearn is having its next monthly twitter chat. The topic for the chat is based on the post The Benefits and Challenges of Embedding Learning in Work by @charlesjennings To join the chat, go to Twitter at 8pm on 11/11, search for @OzLearn and join in the conversation (don’t forget to add #ozlearn to your tweets). There's also an OzLearn LinkedIn group where you can view the Storify of the chat afterwards. Hope you can join us for the chat!
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Learn. Show. Repeat.

Showing My Work #8

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 9/12/14

Working with Cognitive Load

Integrating Motivation with Instructional Design

The Next OzLearn Tweet Chat is on 11/11/14

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