Defining Assessment Items from Learning Goals

Defining Assessment Items from Learning Goals

You’ve defined learning goals and activities. Now you need to define assessment items. If you’re working with others, discuss what types of assessment items will be useful for each goal. Will the item be a take-home assignment? A presentation? A quiz? An essay? A demonstration? Or something else entirely? Next, choose a format for the

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

Ever heard of the learning and forgetting curve? It’s a theory that attempts to explain how people learn and how quickly they forget new information. The curve goes something like this: After learning something new, your memory will drop dramatically at first. Then, it will stabilize for a while. After that, it will slowly decline

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5 Simple Ways to Convert Content into eLearning Material

5 Simple Ways to Convert Content into eLearning Material

The content that you create for your online course can be used to create eLearning material as well. Here are 5 simple ways to convert content into eLearning material: 1. Record the Instructor’s Voice One of the easiest ways to convert content into eLearning material is by recording the instructor’s voice. This is a great

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Why you shouldn’t study dentistry: Confessions of a practising dentist

Why you shouldn’t study dentistry: Confessions of a practising dentist

Before I studied dentistry, I didn’t really know what a dentist did. In fact, if you asked me then what the main function of a dentist was, I would have said it was to make sure that everyone has nice teeth. I also thought that all dentists had white coats and were old men with

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6 reasons to upgrade professionally in Data and Analytics

6 reasons to upgrade professionally in Data and Analytics

1. Networking opportunities In the course of your career, you will have to interact with other professionals from different industries. These interactions are necessary for your professional growth and development. The number of people you can interact with in the Data and Analytics domain is larger than in other domains, because this is a new

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