Education 2.0 & 3.0

The following five helpful mantras provide refreshing ideas for creating eLearning courses that go beyond a conventional approach.

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Humans thrive on visual stimuli, and interaction. We don’t want to hear about the latest tablet, or even read an article about it. We want to see it for ourselves. More than that, we want to experience it for ourselves. We want to press all the buttons, test out the apps, and personalize every feature. …

===> By combining visual training with active learning, students can go from novice to expert in far less time than with traditional study methods. <===

Active learning requires students to engage with the material. One of the most effective ways to accomplish this is through retrieval practice. In retrieval practice information is brought out of memory for a specific purpose (Karpicke and Blunt, 2011).

"A new study shows that we are far better at remembering what we see and touch than what we hear."