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Gagne’s Nine Events of Instruction
Robert Mills Gagné (August 21, 1916–April 28, 2002) was an American educational psychologist best known for his “Conditions of Learning”. Gagné pioneered the science of instruction during WWII for the...
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Bloom’s Taxonomy
The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, often called Bloom’s Taxonomy, is a classification of the different objectives and skills that educators set for students. The taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by...
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Behavioral Verbs for Learning Objectives
Behavioral verbs are the heart of learning objectives and lesson plans. If used consistently, they are a highly effective way to indicate, and communicate to others, specific, observable student...
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Learning Theories in Education
In education, learning is commonly defined as a process that brings together cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences and experiences for acquiring, enhancing, or making changes in one’s...
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Ordered Lists
Sometimes the most effective way to present information is in a list. Lists can draw a reader’s attention, make text easier to scan and read, add white space to a page, shorten copy, relate items, and...
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Bulleted (Unordered) Lists
Bulleted lists are used to present organized information when the order of the list items isn’t important. These lists can present items as either complete sentences or sentence fragments. The use of...
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Using Numbers, Writing Lists
This article’s rules are meant primarily for standard academic prose. Business and technical writing sometimes goes by a different set of standards, and writers of those kinds of text should consult a...
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Basic Copyright Information
Adhering to copyright laws is a critical part of the job of an instructional designer. This page provides resources to help keep up with copyright rules. Even if copyrighted materials are being used...
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Copyleft
Copyleft is a play on the word copyright to describe the practice of using copyright law to offer the right to distribute copies and modified versions of a work and requiring that the same rights be...
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Interactions for eLearning
BJ Schone has published a nice little eBook and has an associated blog that provides some interactions that can be used in eLearning that will make the learning more fun and engaging. Some of the...
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