Creating Quality Content

Creating Quality Content What is content? Content has many meanings. In our context content is the text we present to convey information, the graphics we use to enhance meaning and understanding, and the methods we use to test and assess successful learning. To...

Ensuring Engagement through Gamification

Ensuring Engagement through Gamification Why is engagement so important? One of the main goals when creating and framing learning content is to keep our learners’ attention. As instructors we’re always looking for ways to make content engaging as well as educational....

Overcoming obstructions to learning

Overcoming obstructions to learning Overcoming obstructions to learning It’s the age-old question – what can you as a teacher, instructor, coach or trainer do to make sure that your audience actually learns? If there is one concern that brings dread to the...

Moodle 4.0 – All new

Moodle 4.0 – All new Just another update? We’re all resigned to the perpetual requirements for updates from the products we’re locked into using, and more than a little jaded by the demand for yet more financial outlay for what is mostly cosmetic and...

Cognitive load and effective digital learning

Cognitive load and effective digital learning In a previous blog, we discussed cognitive load theory and how understanding it can guide the discerning manager to finding effective learning solutions. This time we thought it would be useful to have a closer look at...

What is Cognitive Load?

What is Cognitive Load? What is cognitive load and how does understanding it improve course design? Dig a little deeper into learning technique discussions and articles these days, and you will find that the concept of cognitive load is becoming more and more...