Write-up on EdTech. Experiences, Research, and more.
I write this from having travelled 16,000 kms across the State of Maharashtra, India in 3 months. Visited 170 Colleges. Conducted 26 Drives. Tested 4600 students and recruited/ signed ~350 learners into the Income Share Agreement based program.
Community building requires certain ascetic quality. Communities are a sure shot way of building brands and longevity. The reason why a lot of brands don’t do it – It’s hard. Requires uncommon passion. Takes time.
Technology has both good and the adverse effects. Have you ever thought of digital distraction in a classroom? Do you really think that digital devices should be allowed in the…
A small group of students is always an excellent choice for fruitful learning. Virtual breakout rooms are no less than any group, giving the students more chances to speak, choose, and present.
Online discussion boards are now the new normal platform for holding discussions. Many times students restrain themselves from becoming a part of an online discussion.
Virtual classrooms these days are the new normal due to the current situation of a global pandemic. Though the offline mode of teaching will resume after some time when the situation improves, but the trend of virtual classes is going to continue from now.
Good UX and UI essentially comes down to following certain rules which are empirical and based on extensive user studies of interfaces. There are some principles that you can follow to ensure your e-learning platform has acceptable to delightful experience.
Skimming behaviours, visual span, Gestalt, visual scanning, and much more – these are established with eyeball tracking studies and user research. Below, I summarize the top 4 practices that you can follow
Several e-learning platforms mean more competition amongst them. And the one which possesses the best content wins the heart of the learners. From scripting to storytelling what to include and what not and what role the mixed media plays in enhancing the level of readability, all these essentials you will find in this blog.
We define bias in a human context. We rarely come across biased machine. Have you seen an ice cream vending machine that dispenses 20 grams extra to kids of certain ethnicity? Have you? Unlikely. Software and Algorithms can act strange. How? Read on
Self- directed learning is empowered because of its major benefits. The learners require various tools and platforms which can keep a good track of their growth in learning.
It is a fact that due to the pandemic, many people are working from home. And because of that, the learning process has witnessed several changes.
Design aesthetics, navigation, color contrast, length of module, readability and more will impact whether your e-learning platform will stick to the user.
Distance Education is the education received by a learner who may not be physically present at the educational institutions. It offers corresponding courses that help the students to study right away at their home or wherever they are living. All the study materials are provided to the student either via mail or on an e-learning platform.
Both the 2020 and 2021 years are important in terms of e-learning. In 2020, the pandemic changed the priorities for e-learning forever. The things which were usually done in the…
At the crux, of Habit forming products is aligning the core workflow of the user with the intrinsic motivation of the learner. We have followed the ideas originally proposed by Nir Eyal in his popular book “Hooked”.
Hints are very important as it not only helps the user to understand the concept but also proves to be a great guide for learning. Hints let you struggle to know the right answer by yourself, it directly doesn’t give you the answer but lets you search on your own which is quite useful for learning. In this blog you will also get to know the three stages of a hint and much more.
This blog is a simple introduction on Item Response Theory. So what we’re going to look over here is what is this S curve? What is item response theory? Just to understand at a very high level, what are the applications and how IRT is involved in it? Where do we come across all of these things? And why should you as a product manager, as an instructional designer, as a learning outcomes engineer, even care for this particular thing? And also why NASSCOM is called a qualification pack?
It’s easy to be ‘difficult’,when you are designing tech products and content as it is to be consumed by the reader to seek an outcome. The information presented here will give you a detailed structure of the readability, flow, length, formatting and relevancy for the perfect content. Storytelling and Visual elements play a key role for a broader concept of learning.
Welcome to another episode of Humans of EdTech. And in this particular episode, we are going to have a look at a news that came sometime last week. And which can be of some interest to all of you guys who are here, who are interested in EdTech. So Inc.com, this particular article, which is “Google’s plan to disrupt the college degree is absolute genius”.
