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
When so-called serious games for learning purposes first was introduced the focus was set on its benefits to provide a purposeful, fun way to develop cognitive change and knowledge. But can this non-traditional teaching tool also be a source of behavioural change? Research from the eConfidence project and Schoolnet shows …
How does the mind create understanding and meaning? This is a question that has produced loads of research and theories among linguistics and philosophers. According to new research from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, we compose the meanings of separate words into a new whole. Co-editor of the research …
Time to let go of detailed curriculums and the value of statistics from learning should be used less to grade the student and more to personalise the learning design for millennials and other generations. In this development, digitization is the main driving force. Vital sensible intelligence about the development is …
Technavio, a global technology research and advisory company, identify three trends with a focus on educational content in a report. Besides interactive content and adaptive learning technologies, gamification design is considered to have a strong impact on the coming years. But how do you integrate fun and engaging game mechanics in …
Information overflows us, to select the data of importance and to reject everything else, is a necessity to handle the prerequisites of the digital society. This also requires new multitasking skills and knowledge to boost the performance in the working life as well as everyday life. The research presented below …
Empathic design is focusing on the receivers subconscious desires by finding the implicit reasons people use your product or service. To put this method in practice you have to map emotions and motivations from potential target groups. Where you use formative research instead of summative research that usually is more …
“Every single social and global issue of our day is a business opportunity in disguise.” Peter Drucker To find these opportunities is crucial for the development of businesses. This requires business intelligence, knowledge creation, operational excellence and talent management. However, the organisation’s quest for excellence concerns not only new opportunities …
Artificial intelligence could be a bridge. The connector to improve human interaction and adapting education in accordance with individual preferences and skills. And at the same time, automating administrative tasks in the educational process to make more room for learning and teaching. Data is here the AI language to make …
Can VR help to improve social work? Professor Nicholas Lanzieri at New York University has created a VR-simulation. That takes the student as a social worker through New York City’s Lower East Side. Here the student will enter a virtual reality training environment and explore possible challenges for clients. Professor …
Research on learning motivation until now has been rather general, according to Dr Julia Dietrich of Friedrich Schiller University in Jena (FSU). In a research project in collaboration with Jaana Viljaranta (University of Eastern Finland), Julia Moeller (Yale University) and Bärbel Kracke (FSU) the team is bringing the first building …
