Designing Educational Video

Designing Educational Video

First, the Science It’s best to think about learning video in the context of cognitive science – how humans process information. The research in cognitive theories for learning through multimedia shows we watch learning videos through two parallel channels:  1) a...
The Promise of Connected Learning

The Promise of Connected Learning

Connected Learning Connected Learning is based on the notion that learning is about expanding the connections between people and information within a learner’s personal network. In this model, the individual learner exists at the center of his/her own learning...
Five Constraints of Effective Learning Design

Five Constraints of Effective Learning Design

In the late 90s, I had begun pitching interactive, story-based activities for the web to different higher education publishers. And, by 2000, a colleague and I had finally come up with what we were calling the “next great thing” in foreign language education:...