Saturday, May 17, 2003

Instructional Design for Flow in Online Learning. "This tutorial describes how the instructional design of an online course can facilitate an optimal learning experience for the student. The optimal learning experience is the state termed 'flow.' Flow, as defined by creativity researcher Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is the 'state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it.'" [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 10:48:46 PM

Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint. "In corporate and government bureaucracies, the standard method for making a presentation is to talk about a list of points organized onto slides projected up on the wall... the popular PowerPoint templates (ready-made designs) usually weaken verbal and spatial reasoning, and almost always corrupt statistical analysis. What is the problem with PowerPoint? And how can we improve our presentations?" [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE] 10:48:22 PM

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