Remove Assessment Remove Gamification Remove Online Learning
article thumbnail

10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Student Achievement Through Gamification and Game-Based Learning.

Course 491
article thumbnail

10 Top tips for creating more effective online learning forums

Neo LMS

There’s a wealth of information and materials that you can use to teach online, but activities have to be carefully planned. Online learning forums are the most accessible way to engage students. Even if it’s for sharing learning resources! 10 Top tips for creating more effective online learning forums.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Why gamification works [Part 2]

Neo LMS

In my last blog we started discussing the “why” of gamification , with a specific focus on the nature of motivation, lensed through one broadly held theory of motivation called Self-Determination Theory (SDT), not to be confused at this point with self-directed learning. Gamification and online learning environments.

article thumbnail

Understanding the link between digital literacy, gaming and safety

Neo LMS

However, teachers must show students how to engage with digital media, so they can have fun while staying safe online. Read more: Creating a safe environment for online learning. Perhaps the best way to engage with digital literacy in the classroom is to embrace the increasing usage of video games and work towards gamification.

article thumbnail

What’s edtech got to do with growth mindset?

Neo LMS

Instead of making things easy for them, the technology allows you to offer increasingly harder tasks and also make it fun with features such as gamification. Visualizing progress through gamification. Competency-based learning is not the only way to see progress. Using formative assessments more frequently.

EdTech 407
article thumbnail

Key Digital Innovations for Today’s Education Professionals

Ask a Tech Teacher

Integrating such data into Learning Experience Platforms (LXPs) creates the basis for better engagement, motivation, and results since each student benefits from a tailored experience that works best for their needs and aspirations. Gamification in the classroom can take on various forms.

article thumbnail

20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

But the reality is also that we’re going to have to prepare for a fall that – whatever it looks like – will include an online learning component. Even if we go back to face-to-face learning, we will all have to be prepared to teach online, and the best way to do this is to first educate ourselves with research and pedagogy.