Reams and reams of text have been written about the practical implementation of game-based learning, but a school in New York has taken it to a whole new level. Quest to Learn is a school which uses the underlying design principles of games to create highly immersive, game-like learning experiences for students.
Abhijit Kadle | December 30th, 2010
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T. S. Eliot
That’s a pertinent question that we need to ask ourselves. We take immense pride in meeting project deadlines and delivering courses within budgets; however, somewhere in our quest to showcase our potential, we may have forgotten about the core objective — Delivering Knowledge.
So, what differentiates knowledge from information?
In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 5 posts for November, each accompanied by a quick brief.
1. Digital Instructional Media Design 101 – Principles Of Gestalt Psychology
Focuses on how a basic understanding of the Gestalt principles can help create harmonious design and improve the odds that the intended message is conveyed to the learners.
Abhijit Kadle | November 17th, 2010
This week I focus on how a basic understanding of the Gestalt principles can help create harmonious design and improve the odds that the intended message is conveyed to the learners we design for.
The Theory
The Gestalt theory suggests that when a person looks at an intricate combination of elements, the “whole” is perceived before its “individual” parts. Consequently, the “whole” also becomes more than the sum of its parts. To put it simply, the theory refers to how visual input is perceived by humans.
When was the last time you were so involved in what you were doing that you forgot yourself? You lost track of time? You were ‘in the zone’?
All of us can recall such moments – while reading a book, listening to music, playing a sport, in an online computer game. But I wonder how many of us have felt this during an online course, or inside a classroom when being taught?
In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 5 posts for October, each accompanied by a quick brief.
1. Moving To eLearning
Lists and explains some of the key change factors that lead organizations to adopt eLearning, stand-alone and as a part of the training blend. While some of these factors simply translate to ‘Business Needs’, others determine the ‘Readiness of the Organization’ to adapt to eLearning.
Abhijit Kadle | October 21st, 2010
Last month our ID team got their feet wet with the learning campaigns in the Age of Empires II – Age of Kings. I’d recommended that all IDs play the game for a few hours to understand how different ‘gamey’ elements are from the conventional ‘interaction’ we use in conventional courseware.
In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 10 posts for August, each accompanied by a quick brief.
1. Creating Successful m-Learning Strategy – Part 3
Third and final post of the series on creating successful m-learning strategy, based on the mLearnCon workshop, this post discusses about the tools and techniques used for developing mLearning courses.
Over the last few weeks, I have been learning about the fundamental concepts and basic principles of designing electronic instructional media. These concepts are essential knowledge which constitutes a firm foundation, before one can be effective in an Instructional Designer’s role that involves media design.
In continuation to our series of monthly roundup posts, here is a collection of our top 10 posts for July, each accompanied by a quick brief.
A couple of month back I had shared a list of top 30 online resources for instructional designers to keep up with. That post seems to have got good circulation. Recently I came across this discussion on LinkedIn – best book for beginning instructional designers. The discussion has thrown up a great list of books for instructional designers worth sharing with our readers too.
