I thought it was time to share with you my readings around learning design and considerations when applying it to informal learning. The concept of applying learning design to informal learning has started to grow due to the high numbers of registrations and dropouts for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) whereas previously it only had …
This fortnight I have continued with my reading on motivation of students, again my frustration has continued with the limited papers available on the motivation of learners in a non/informal learning environment, so with the previous blog post I have been reading about motivation in formal teaching for students and applied it to non/informal learning …
The last few weeks I have been reading papers on motivation. Frustratingly there aren’t that many papers on motivation for non-formal study (not for credit), but there are plenty on formal study (for credit). So I have been reflecting on how to reframe the themes, theories, and issues from the papers that I have been …
In the last post I continued my look into gamification and its affect on goals and motivation on learners, this post I move more into motivation and its impact on learner retention in informal learning, linking back to my reading on gamification, more to follow on that later this week. Review Previously the activity of …
This week I turned my attention to gamification. The purpose of this interest is through reviewing papers on learning design whilst on holiday with the focus for me being on the thought process of the potential design of learning journeys and motivation in informal learning, gamification became a field of interest. Over the years I …
Reader, I married him … and by him I mean learning and development. Unlike Bronte, mine isn’t closeted in the attic, instead I work, live, breath, and research learning andd development. So you may at this point be thinking that I am a literature PhD student, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. I am …
