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Gamification: Engaging Students With Narrative | Edutopia
Gamify a classroom by introducing a fun narrative, reframing assignments to fit into that narrative, and making students care about the outcome.Rebecca Peterson's insight:With the popularity of gaming...
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How to Teach in an Age of Distraction - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Human interaction and sustained introspection? There are no apps for those.Rebecca Peterson's insight:OK, Sherry Turkle's commentary is not really about how to motivate students; it is more about how...
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Motivational Tools for Noncharismatic Leaders
It doesn't take charisma to create a highly motivating work environment. In fact, charisma is not all it is cracked up to be. It's overrated, an excellent motivator doesn't need it, and sometimes it...
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Instructional Design Models And Theories: Keller’s ARCS Model Of Motivation -...
Learn about the ARCS Model of motivation and how your can use it to develop really engaging eLearning courses. The ARCS Model Of Motivation.Nadia Jaramillo's insight:This resource provides a general...
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Motivating Adult Learners - Motivational Strategies
Xiaolin Gao's insight:This reading offers a motivational strategy model. We can easily see how these strategies can work with the examples it offered.See it on Scoop.it, via DesigningLearning_Fall2015
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Nilson-adaptedmotivation.pdf
Nadia Jaramillo's insight:This article provides straightforward strategies to motivate students. Although these are not strictly aligned to instructional design as such, they seem useful and...
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Sam B's insight:I thought this article provided some interesting insight into students who are both high and low achievers. With tonights discussion we talked about engaging and motivating all students...
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4 Tips on Designing Training for Your Leadership Team | The Upside Learning Blog
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. - John F. Kennedy. Every organisation has a hierarchical system, withKristin Hanson's insight:This article focuses on motivating those in...
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A Framework For Student Motivation In A Blended Classroom
A Framework For Student Motivation In A Blended ClassroomZina Alaswad's insight:I cannot consider this framework to comprehensive enough to be used alone for enabling student motivation in Blended...
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A Comprehensive Framework For Student Motivation
A Comprehensive Framework For Student MotivationZina Alaswad's insight:I came across another framework for student motivation. Out of the 8 aspects if the framework, I find ownership and meaning are...
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Motivating Adult Learners - Motivational Strategies
Julia Sager's insight:I liked this one a lot too - it gives good ideas for the types of learning activities that help motivate adults.See it on Scoop.it, via DesigningLearning_Fall2015
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Secret to ESL teaching success: Keep students motivated! - Global Educational...
Julia Sager's insight:Based on my lifelong fear of learning another language (and nothing else), I fell that I am very close to the origination point in the lower left corner. I have little confidence...
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ARCS model of motivation/Variability strategies for attention - YouTube
Brief slideshow outlining variability strategies for maintaining learner attention, based on the ARCS model of motivation.Julia Sager's insight:Thirty-seven seconds of ideas for maintaining attention....
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John Keller's ARCS Model of Motivational Design
John Keller's ARCS Model of Motivational Design Jiaqi Yu's insight:I found this link is very useful because it provides specific examples and methods for each step in Keller's model. Especially we are...
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Why Aesthetics Matter to Learning
One obvious way to influence affect is through visual aesthetics, or the appreciation of an appealing design. Thus, the importance of visual design in learning is gaining in stature and will become...
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Why Aesthetics Matter to Learning
One obvious way to influence affect is through visual aesthetics, or the appreciation of an appealing design. Thus, the importance of visual design in learning is gaining in stature and will become...
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A Look at Why Good Design Is Absolutely Critical for eLearning Success
"eLearning comprises of two kinds of designs – instructional design and graphic design. When we as commoners think about design, all we think of is superficial things. But design is more than just...
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E-learning Instructional Design: How to Present the Content in an Engaging Way
"Instructional design is considered more an art than science. Instructional Designers (IDs) play a vital role in designing effective e-learning courses that are able to engage learners. An...
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Visual Design Basics | Usability.gov
Visual design focuses on the aesthetics of a site and its related materials by strategically implementing images, colors, fonts, and other elements.Xiaolin Gao's insight:This resource shows how to...
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Visual Design Strategies for Instructional Designers, Instructors and…
This presentation was given at a meeting for ASTD's Golden Gate Chapter South Bay GIG on April 24, 2013. Effective visual design is not just about aesthetics. …Misty Spencer's insight:I thought this...
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Top 10 Graphic Design Tips For eLearning Success - eLearning Industry
Graphic Design Tips for eLearning: Top 10 Graphic Design Tips that eLearning Professionals Should Be Familiar With.Misty Spencer's insight:I think as IDs we often forget or overlook the importance of...
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Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everyone
Julia Sager's insight:This website had a lot of information that I found very helpful in explaining what clean design is, with many A/B examples to illustrate. The comments were also illuminating and I...
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A Design Framework for Enhancing Virtual Team Learning in the Workplace | The...
Julie Beyerink's insight:I like this article from the Journal of Applied Instructional Design. We have spent a lot of time reading and discussing how to help virtual learners feel more connected, but...
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List of questions to ask website usability testers | Jennifer Slegg – Search...
Xiaolin Gao's insight:Hope this source bring some thoughts on testing website usability to the groups that may develop a website for their project.See it on Scoop.it, via DesigningLearning_Fall2015
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Usability First - Methods - Usability Testing | Usability First
Usability testing is conducted with the website or application's target audience and may use state-of-the-art usability testing software TechSmith MoraeJiaqi Yu's insight:I would like to recommend...
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Which Comes First? Layout or Content?
Avoid awkward and difficult page layouts by fitting flexible templates to content whenever possible. Test often during design, and plan to scale up.Emmanuel Saka's insight:We looked into aesthetics in...
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Home | Usability.gov
Usability.gov is the one-stop source for user experience best practices and strategies. Learn how to create more usable, useful, and accessible websites.Emmanuel Saka's insight:Considering an approach...
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Collaborative User Testing: Less Bias, Better Research
We all want user research that provides reliable guidance for our teams. But bias is tricky—it’s often introduced unknowingly. How can we be sure that the results of guerrilla user research sessions...
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Quality%20Matters%202012%20Findability.pdf
Rebecca Peterson's insight:Findinability was the subject of my Project #1 - Could students not familiar with my college find my online courses and materials easily? Here I've shared a .ppt outling a...
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Unmoderated, Remote Usability Testing: Good or Evil? :: UXmatters
Julia Sager's insight:Since I am currently struggling with how to do usability testing of a website quickly, I was very interested to see this discussion of possible different approaches to...
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