Understanding learner context: brain, body and beyond
For a learning designer, understanding a person’s micro and macro learning contexts is the first critical step in designing something that will work well for them individually.
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Learning principle spotlight: Developing intrinsic motivation
A few of the LearnJam team share products that they feel effectively helped develop their intrinsic motivation. Great design is often invisible to the user, we don’t think about how something works until, well – it’s not working! If you follow us here LearnJam, you’ve probably heard us talking about how we use our Learning … Read more
What does a Learning Designer do? (Podcast episode 2)
In the second episode of our podcast series, Adventures in Learning Design, Tim and Laurie explore what we actually do. This is an abridged version of that conversation …
Meet Reobot, the world’s first Māori language chatbot
We caught up with Jonnie Cain, the Experience Designer behind the world’s first Māori language chatbot in New Zealand.
Addressing access to English for refugees and asylum seekers: An interview with Anna Lloyd from Cambridge English Language Assessment
Towards the end of 2016, Cambridge English Language Assessment held the ‘Access to English for Refugees and Asylum Seekers’ conference with Techfugees – a social enterprise mobilising the international tech community to respond to the refugee crisis. We spoke to Anna Lloyd, Head of Education Technology at Cambridge English Language Assessment and member of the Techfugees Cambridge chapter, about how the partnership came about and what solutions have come out if it so far …
ELTjam’s top 5 posts of 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, we look back at our most popular posts of the year. As ever, we’ve had some gems this year, so here’s your chance to make sure you haven’t missed out. And this year’s number one post was also the most-read ELTjam post ever.
So here, in reverse order, are the TOP 5 posts of 2015. Can you guess what #1 is?
AR we there yet?
We thought it might be worth taking a look to see if our predictions regarding Augmented Reality turned out to be accurate, or if we were jumping any number of guns …
Learning on Rails
It’s possible that we’ll discover that providing the student with highly relevant, engaging content will be more effective than crafting learning experiences on rails (à la our current, item-response-theory-influenced “adaptive learning”).
Interview with a publisher Pt. 3/3
And so my interview with John Tuttle draws to a close with this final instalment. So far we’ve covered the evolution of the ELT industry and the how the role of publisher will continue to develop, and what the future may hold for ‘guru’ authors and the new generation of content writers. Now our conversation turns to adaptive learning and what lies ahead in the world of EdTech …
ePerfection: Collaborative Textbook Design
It’s quite simply a phenomenal idea; utilising a powerful toolkit of online collaborative applications to deliver a 5-week course on how to develop an eTextbook.
The EdTech Boogie
It is educational publishers, in partnership with the educators and the learners who are their customers, who are best placed to show the world how this great deluge of information can best be mediated because that is their business and always has been.
ELT’s Collective Consciousness: What Can We Learn From The Questions We Ask?
I don’t know what it is but we at eltjam are feeling a little nostalgic. It might be that we’ve met our 500th follower on twitter this week. It might be the spate of glorious weather that the UK is revelling in. Who knows? Either way, it’s at times like this that it makes sense … Read more
We Built This City: SimCityEDU and the Electronic Art of Success
SimCityEDU is the Great Gatsby of the video gaming world. That’s right. I want that to be my opening line. In the same way that Gatsby is a self-made man pursuing an idealised (albeit fundamentally flawed) dream that draws into it the rich variety of the city and its inhabitants, so too is SimCityEDU an … Read more
Playforce: The Language of Learning Through Games
So it’s one thing to avail oneself of the endless blogs and sites that tout the ‘Top 10 Games For the Classroom’ or ‘Top iPad Apps for Learners’, but it’s entirely another to create a forum and approach for users to comment on the learning experiences they have encountered through the various games they play. This is … Read more
