Learning Management Systems: The Future of Education
A Learning management system (LMS) is a term used loosely to refer to a variety of computer application programs designed for training or educational purposes.
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Interactive Instruction Keeps Learners Engaged and Boosts Understanding
Ask any middle school teacher and they’ll tell you one of the hardest parts of their job is keeping their audience – the students – focused and engaged. For the adult trainer, there’s certainly a difference in the audience, but the challenge is exactly the same.
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Learner Engagement is Key to Effective Training
Effective instruction depends on ensuring that learners are actively engaged in both receiving the information being taught and processing it for later use. But doing so in an adult learning environment can be challenging.
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Effective Training Means Letting Learners Know When They’re Right
Decades of research in both laboratory and real-life applications have proven the value of positive reinforcement in directing behavior. Among the everyday scenarios where positive reinforcement has proven particularly successful is the classroom.
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Utilize Agile Learning by Validating Your Group’s Skills
The concept of agile based learning has its roots in software development, where it provides a “lightweight” framework for the creation of code without the burden of heavy bureaucracy or administration that could potentially slow the process.
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Assess Learning to Determine a Seminar’s Success
During any type of teaching or training, it’s important for the instructor to understand whether participants are comprehending and assimilating the information being provided.
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Spend More Time Teaching by Flipping the Classroom
The traditional classroom environment has been built on the concept of in class lectures and instruction, followed up by supporting work – homework, essentially – performed outside the classroom environment.
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Use Socratic Questioning to Help Trainees Better Understand and Absorb Information
In business training, the focus is often on how to most effectively convey a lesson to trainees, as if the instructional process was a one-way street.
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Peer Instruction Creates a More Active Instructional Environment
When it comes to training, many managers and instructors remain couched in the old-school model of lecturing inside the classroom or seminar, leaving it to trainees to absorb and apply that knowledge outside the learning environment.
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Team-Based Learning Helps Break the Lecture/Test Cycle (Part 1 of 2)
As many in academics have come to realize, the old stand-by method of assigning reading, lecturing on material and then testing students is inefficient and, under many circumstances, ineffective.
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