December 18th, 2008 by Learning Systems
Creating and incorporating videos on a learning management system can transform lessons, activities and even entire courses. Learning management systems like Coggno offer an easy-to-use video tool for creating engaging videos.
But how can teachers and course creators avoid the passive learning behavior that videos are capable of prompting? When creating your video, keep your students in mind.
Create videos that command the attention of your students with instructions that speak directly to them. Students should be alert and engaged with the video, ready for instructions to take notes and answer questions. Tests and quizzes created on a learning management system can be featured at the end of a video to ensure that students were paying attention to the material.
December 17th, 2008 by Learning Systems
It’s a tattered cliché I’m guilty of using–”A picture says a thousand words.” But it’s true. Combine a picture with sound and movement, and the words start to add up. When we watch videos, we’re taking in endless details and information. While television becomes more and more stuffed with images and sounds, we’ve become more passive watchers. As video content becomes more gaudy and loud, our defense is to tune out a bit, to avoid mental overload.
One problem with implementing LMS hosted videos in a course is the potential for passive learning behavior. When students sit in front of a screen watching a demo or other LMS content, they may instinctively start to tune out a little. When creating LMS videos, it’s essential to keep in mind and respect the sensibilities of your learners, and engage without trying to dazzle.
December 10th, 2008 by Learning Systems
Thinking about designing a team-building online course? Or do you have a team-building learning system ready to upload to an online course distributor? Enter Coggno. Using Coggno’s text tool, video tool, template tool, question bank, assessment tool and quiz features, you’ll have everything you need to create a robust team-building learning system.
After your course is uploaded to Coggno, you’re free to syndicate it as well, allowing other relevant web publishers to publish and sell your learning system on their websites. You have complete control over which sites you wish to publish your content, and how much revenue you’d like to share with them each time you make a sale. Choosing to syndicate your course means that you’ll enjoy more publicity for your product, as well as expanding your revenue. Take a tour of Coggno’s suite of tools and find out how simple course creation can be.
November 26th, 2008 by Learning Systems
While listening to a teacher lecture for hours doesn’t suit many visual learners, watching a dynamic speaker demonstrate a lesson does. Visual learners are sensitive to body language, and often have an advanced ability to “read” people. Many visual-spatial learners aren’t able to depend on their ears for information, so they develop incredible visual and intuitive abilities.
Visual-spatial learners do well with courseware systems that employ not only color-coding, pictures, graphs, and charts, but stimulating videos. Courseware systems may include videos with demonstrations, simulations and screencasting to cater to visual learners. In a courseware system video, a speaker should use a great deal of body language as well as references to diagrams and charts, as well as images.
November 26th, 2008 by Learning Systems
While your learning management system students will constitute a motley batch of learning types, many are probably strong visual-spatial learners. Luckily, the instructional tools that a learning management system provides can be used to effectively represent information spatially and with images.
Include graphs and graphic organizers in your learning material. Graphic organizers include brainstorms and idea maps, webs, plots, and illustrations like stack plots and Venn plots. Showing the relationship between ideas and images, teachers can help all students–not only visually-gifted ones–digest information more quickly.
Using your learning management system tools like Coggno’s text tool, video tool, SCORM publisher, template tool, and question bank, engage your students in active, visually-interesting learning content.
September 29th, 2008 by Learning Systems
Ever taken a tour in a foreign country, city, or museum? Tours are an often underestimated way of gaining information. Whether it’s your first, second or tenth visit to a place, a tour introduces you to or reinforces your knowledge of a range of important information, using audio and visual stimuli.
The same holds true with the use of videos. Want to make your LMS as engaging and enjoyable as possible? One of Coggno’s most powerful instruments is the video tool. It’s a sure-fire way to make your LMS interactive and memorable for your users. And whether you’re new to or have experience with Coggno, you might consider taking a video tool tour to see just how simple uploading your video can be. Log on to www.coggno.com and tour the video tool grounds to enrich your LMS experience.
August 21st, 2008 by Learning Systems
In this post, we will look at another aspect of Coggno’s LMS—the ingenious video tool.
Our tool even supports multiple input file formats, so you don’t have to deal with manual conversions. In case you’re thinking of utilizing videos for your training, our LMS video tool treats you to the following features:
• Multiple input video formats (MPEG, QuickTime, Flash Video, WMV)
• Unlimited bandwidth
• Unlimited video quality
• Video conversion on the server
• Video preview
• Integration with Coggno community and assessment tools
Many people—visual learners in particular—prefer videos to text and/or audio. With Coggno’s LMS video tool, you can cater to your audience’s demands with utmost convenience.
