11. Instructional Tips and Best Practices
Find a wealth of educational tips to help you perfect your teaching methods and enrich your learners' experience
🦾 How to motivate your learners?Boost intrinsic motivation: create meaningful activities, set realistic goals, and engage your learners for long-lasting learning success.
🎨 Is aesthetics secondary?Combine aesthetics and efficiency: capture attention with subtle visual contrasts to create appealing and educational materials.
👩🏫 How to make your presentations more engaging?Capture attention: limit your messages, simplify your materials, and add relevant visuals for impactful presentations.
How to find the right level of difficultyBoost learning by targeting the "zone of proximal development": tailor challenges, alternate concepts, and strengthen memory.
🔍 Should you explain, demonstrate, or let learners try first?Guide your learners with a blend of trial-and-error and feedback to avoid the traps of the illusion of mastery and foster understanding.
👥 How to make your learners work effectively in groups?Optimise collaborative learning: discover how to assess each learner, structure interactions, and enhance engagement.
🎯 What role does knowledge play in learning?Discover "knowledge" as the foundation for comprehension, reasoning, creativity, and a gateway to new learning opportunities.
📒 How to facilitate the consolidation of learning?Discover how to enhance the consolidation of knowledge in your learners’ memory.
👩💻 How to enhance the encoding of learning?Make learning easier by capturing your learners' attention, emphasising the essentials, eliminating the unnecessary, and balancing effort.
🤖 How to automate what has been learned?Didask's recommendations for automating learners' acquired knowledge: chunking