Category: Assignment 2 – Blog Feedback

Hi Lauv,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and your own experience with active learning. I agree with you that it is necessary for college students to understand and master active learning. In the traditional teacher-centred lecture format, students are passive observers. In the traditional teacher-centred lecture format, students are passive observers. Therefore, the instructor should also change the teaching strategy and let the students be active participants in their own study, either by themselves or in cooperation with others. Instructors should design student-centred learning (Universal Design for Learning) where they learn with problems (Merrill’s First Principles). In addition, you make good use of H5P, a tool for creating interactive learning objects, which has given me some insight into motorcycles.

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for sharing your experience of storytelling, I am also familiar with the story of the Ming dynasty’s emperor. In addition to arousing empathy and creating suspense, I try to make my stories interesting and increase interaction with the audience, such as asking questions or answering their doubts. I am committed to helping learners imagine new experiences, inspire empathy, and promote their understanding.

Hi Lauv,

Thanks for sharing the nice infographic. You continue to keep such a good schedule during the post-covid period, which is worthwhile for us to learn. For the design, you include many “good infographic” components in your infographic, such as alignment, hierarchy, repetition, negative space, etc. You avoid cognitive overload and exhibit a solid grasp of segmentation and coherence principles. What I recommend doing differently is including illustrations or pictures the next time to help readers better understand the Multimedia principle.

Hi Bruce,

The use of multimedia is widespread in the post-pandemic era. I appreciate how you are taking into account the needs of various groups by using UDL learning guidelines. It is crucial that we design with the learner in mind, not just in multimedia but also in general.  If you could elaborate on some text, images, and videos that use inclusion design in real-world settings, that would be great.

Hi Bruce,

I thought you did a great job of explaining sketchnoting, and I agree that we can make original sketches. Extremely personalized images and text maximize learning effectiveness and are less likely to be forgotten. The Segmenting Principle, I think, applies here the best. When a multimedia message is delivered in user-paced segments as opposed to one continuous piece, people learn more effectively (Mayer, 2009). However, I am not sure if the Modality principle applies in this case. It seems paradoxical.

References

Mayer, R. E. (2009). Multimedia learning (2nd ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press.

Hello Bruce,

Thank you for sharing your post. I also believe that the redundancy principle should take precedence when handling extraneous load. The reader will understand the knowledge better if the content is clear and simple to grasp. For instance, some instructors enjoy sharing lecture slides that are packed with images. After I have learned the Cognitive Load theory, I would advise them to post a different version in Brightspace than the one they demonstrated in class. In addition, I think the signalling principle is crucial. The learning effectiveness would be dramatically improved by significant segmentation.

Hi Bruce,

Thanks for sharing your post. The video you shared is so fascinating because it demonstrates how a client and a barber converse in 1920s China. I wholeheartedly support the idea of using AI, AR, and VR in the education industry because these tools can more effectively convey that “boring” theoretical knowledge.

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Hi Isabella,

Thank you for sharing your post. I really like reading your opinions and watching the multimedia learning theory video that you shared. As you mentioned, attempting to reduce irrelevant content during the teaching process can help students understand the material better. Other strategies include using bold text and bullet points to emphasise important information or including pertinent pictures.
Besides, I saw that your blog was only one paragraph, which made it a little challenging to understand your main points while reading. If you could add some subtitles and divide the text into several paragraphs, it would be simpler to read.

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