Here you’ll find stories and audio reviews (see below) on Learning Design in practice for everybody. It should be seen as the fifth part of the book with the same title.
Episode 1: The impact of emotions
A research study shows interesting results of how different video game types affect white matter in the brain and cognitive skills. A result that gives new input to skills training with games. The research focussed on the impact of strategy games and action games. The lead researcher of the study, …
A report from McKinsey on how to future-proof citizens’ work skills shows the way to today’s and the future labour market. The result is based on a survey of 18,000 people in 15 countries where the following three categories of critical skills for the whole labour market are identified. It …
How can you improve school education with augmented reality lessons? In schools that are using the flipped classroom in Austria, 90 percent want to continue using the pedagogy. A survey on the subject shows that e.g. mathematics and English have improved dramatically by flipping the classroom. Some of the advantages …
A multi-disciplinary research team from the University of Minnesota, USA, University of Waterloo, Canada, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada, Old Dominion University, USA, and the University of Basel, Switzerland has developed a research method to use psychology models to research the impact of gamification in business etc. The …
The future of education is cross-disciplinary. One-size-fits-all classroom education becomes an adaptive learning environment. Educational publishers becoming learning science companies. And as facts in an ever-changing world fast get obsolete focus instead will be set on analysis, understanding, and learning by doing etc. Especially, since the student has a knowledge …
Learning styles, the subject is to some extent controversial in the field of research, but not if you ask teachers. In this story, we look into the background from the research of Howard Gardner and then solutions like computer games and books that are empowered for every student. Two fundamental …
Boosted involvement and engagement, deepened personalisation, and streamlined administration, this is what these technologies basically accomplish for education, but there are loads of added value beyond this. And since the digital age is triggered by trial- and error applications. It embraces and demands individual talent and skills, while mobility and …
A traditional meeting room is really an obstacle. Since it is designed as a replica of the old industrial society’s assembly lines and labour division. Where creativity at best is the same as that some can manage to think out of the box. But why have a meeting in a …
The focus of adaptive learning (ALS) is to correlate with the learner’s learning style. Eye-tracking is here a core technology for a successful process. Both as the outcome is more qualitative and at the same time, it is direct and automatic. This in comparison to questionnaires that otherwise are used, …
Design finding its way to the core of business organizations as a source of transformation. But the development does not concern aesthetics as the term implies. Instead, the impact of design changes the way people work as a response to new market realities and the force of digitization. Design Thinking …
