Relationships Between Interactions and Online Learning

Warning: Education Geek Content

The Sloan-C Consortium has an interesting publication available on their site about Relationships Between Interactions and Learning In Online Environments. (Translation: How to make sure people learn online.)

It’s only three pages, and not all egghead speak. If you create webcasts, e-learning, chats, or any other kind of learning in the virtual world it would be good to paste this model on your wall and look at it when you are designing what goes into your program.

Here’s a sample of the research findings:

Better transfer of learning from narration and animation presented simultaneously, in conversational style, with irrelevant elements and on-screen text eliminated.

• Present words in spoken form
• Use both words and pictures simultaneously
• Avoid extraneous video and audio
• Do not add redundant on-screen text

If you only implemented one of the 13 research findings each time you created online learning, you’d get better results and smarter students.