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An alternative approach to e-learning?

December 13th, 2010 by Graham Attwell
Here is Clive Shepherd’s alternative (see previous post on this blog) to the ills of present e-learning provision. What do you think? I will write a longer commentary on this in the next few days,
clipped from onlignment.com

  • short how-to videos
  • podcasts (especially interviews and discussions)
  • screencasts that demonstrate software tasks
  • easy-to-learn but hard-to-master games
  • engaging quizzes
  • visually-rich slide shows with narration or big, bold text statements
  • decision aids
  • case studies and scenarios
  • highly-adaptive tutorials, that feel more like coaching sessions than instructional materials
  • drill and practice exercises for those skills that can be honed on a computer
  • exploratory 3D objects and environments
  • interactive timelines and maps
  • polls and surveys
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