I’m delighted to announce the first course in my new project — Design Better Learning. It’s an online course library to help people learn to create better learning experiences. The first course available is Sticky Learning – Learning Design for Attention and Engagement! It’s a self-study course for instructional designers…
Sat in on Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson‘s Design for Understanding workshop at the IA Summit last week, and it was double-plus-good. Here are Stephen’s slides from his IA Summit presentation. Excellent stuff relating to autonomy in learning environments, and multitudes more: From Paths to Sandboxes from Stephen Anderson
Hey folks, this is a really excellent discussion of the issues and research around using extrinsic rewards as a way to motivate behavior. Chris Hecker is looking at the question through the lens of game design, but it really, really applies to learning design as well. There’s a write-up at…
The recording of the webinar that I did for the Gameful folks has been posted – it’s available here: http://gameful.org/groups/gameful-webinar-series/forum/topic/gameful-webinar-{dc37ecfc1b099a49effd6b7e2f1696ef791080b81cfc0fb0f949e8951b696b92}E2{dc37ecfc1b099a49effd6b7e2f1696ef791080b81cfc0fb0f949e8951b696b92}80{dc37ecfc1b099a49effd6b7e2f1696ef791080b81cfc0fb0f949e8951b696b92}93-sunday-february-12-2012/ We wound up with a troll in the room towards the end, who kept posting links to -erm- unsavory sites, so be careful about clicking links in the chat (The…
Just had this quick interchange with Patti Shank on twitter: This is a totally fair comment on Patti’s part — you can’t force someone to be motivated (and undoubtedly some of our disagreement stems from semantics – not that THAT ever happens on twitter). A lot of the conversation around…