by Mike Dickinson
Multiple-choice questions don’t get a lot of respect from some instructional designers when it comes to evaluating higher-level thinking. However, these questions can be effective if the designer knows how to write them. Here is your guide to creating meaningful multiple-choice items.
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by William Sparks
Do you enjoy a challenge? The author had to determine if specific harvest skills had been transferred from a workshop to lead farmers and then on to individual farmers in remote villages in Rwanda. The key to his success was the “clicker”: an audience response system. Not working in Rwanda? His tips will help you use clickers to lead focus groups in the corporate world, too.
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by Mary Arnold
Customer satisfaction is as important a goal for instructional development teams as it is for any other business activity. The very first step in your analysis phase should be sitting down with the stakeholders and identifying their expectations. This month’s column arms you with the right questions to ask!
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by Terrence Wing
Understanding and analyzing the behavior and demographics of your learners used to require careful, even formal, statistical study. Social media now offer new tools for this critically important piece of the designer’s job.
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by News Editor
eLearning Brothers now offers a site where designers can create e-Learning interactions and games in minutes with no programming experience needed.
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by Mary Arnold
Methods intended to engage learners are just tactics that become instructional only when they’re meaningful and strategic. Here’s how to achieve this: by writing content backwards.
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by Learning Solutions Staff
General Physics Corporation will introduce the Marketing Academy, a customized approach that aligns marketing capabilities with business results, at DevLearn 2010.
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by Learning Solutions Staff
SoftChalk LLC, a rapid-content authoring tool, announces the development, in collaboration with the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) group, of SoftChalk ScoreCenter. This new scoring solution uses the IMS LTI and Basic outcomes framework that allows integration of remote tools and content into any LMS.
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by Learning Solutions Staff
Questionmark, exhibiting at DevLearn 2010 November 3 – 5 in San Francisco, has introduced an app for the Android phones that makes it possible to deliver mobile assessments to these devices using the Questionmark™ Perception™ assessment management system.
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by Anne Derryberry
In the third major consolidation in the e-Learning market in 2010, solutions provider Kaplan IT Learning has acquired rapid e-Learning tool provider Atlantic Link, Inc.
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