Infusing AI in Learning Design

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

This quote couldn’t have been truer in the current hybrid education system. As long as learners are involved in the learning process, there is little that educators can do to make sure that the learning process is complete. We have some ideas to share with you, the educators, to engage your learners and to grab their focus. We have some exciting, but super easy-to-use tools to enrich your content.

Enter Raptivity and Quillionz

A quiz is a form of assessment that has been around for centuries. It helps provide feedback on what a student has learned and whether they have mastered the material. More so, quizzes are fun. A quiz is a good way to engage your learners and help them learn while breaking the monotony. A good quiz has the right mix of questions and images, videos, and text. They can be used to tell a story, help decision-making, retain knowledge, and more.

However, setting up a quiz can become a task for many. From designing the questions to securing images and videos, to making sure you hit the right audience, creating a quiz can be a real chore. But what if we told you that you can set up a quiz in minutes with Quillionz and add the right interactive elements to it with Raptivity – without any prior design and programming skills?

That’s correct. Raptivity and Quillionz are the newest ways to build interactive quizzes. Together, they provide a variety of elements to create sophisticated, interactive quizzes for any subject, from language to social sciences. This is a great way for schools and educators who want to create interactive content but don’t have the requisite skills or are faced with a lack of time.

Educators can create a quiz with Quillionz with just a few clicks. Once ready, they can use the eLearning templates from Raptivity to make the quiz more engaging.

Raptivity is SCORM and xAPI compliant. This means that when used with Raptivity, a Quillionz quiz will also offer analytics and insights on how the learners are progressing. In short, these can be the tools to measure learning outcomes and improve the quality of education. Simply take a look at their user-friendly interfaces, select the quiz option from Quillionz that suits you or your learners the best, and then create multimedia-rich, engaging learning scenarios using Raptivity eLearning templates within minutes – it couldn’t be simpler!

Providing A Thorough Learning Experience

Quizzes are a great way to increase engagement with your content. They are also an effective way to learn new things, as they help learners recall information better.

Additionally, there are times when educators need to know if their learners are in tune with the learning material. Quizzes are the perfect tool to test this. That’s the reason why we suggest you try out Quillionz along with Raptivity. These tools make it easy for anyone to create quizzes, whether they are a pro at it or not. They allow educators to create a quiz in minutes and share it with their audience as quickly and easily.

We hope you found this article helpful. We’d also love to hear your thoughts on interactive quizzes. Write to us at info@raptivity.com and share how you are making your content engaging.

 

For some people, asking questions comes easily. It could be thanks to their inquisitive nature, emotional intelligence, or the ability to read others’ minds, but they do know how to ask apt questions, at the right time. Unfortunately, not all of us are blessed with this skill. To be fair, most of us don’t ask enough questions, nor do we pose our doubts in an optimal way.

Not asking questions is a missed opportunity in interacting with our surroundings. Let’s just say that good questions are beneficial in more ways than we can imagine. Especially in the field of education, it is quality questions that drive discussions and sharing of information.

Here are the top five reasons why questions are instrumental in an instructional setting.

To make learning a rewarding experience

Questions breed more questions. They push us to think, wonder, and once the answers are received, questions help us appreciate the knowledge received. In a 2018 study conducted by the Journal of Food Science, a set of students were encouraged to create their own questions based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. These students not only enjoyed the learning experience but also scored 7% more marks compared to the rest of the class.

For the educators, questions reveal the interest of the learners and provide a fair idea of whether the classroom discussions are progressing in the right direction. In that sense, questions serve as a tool for educators to guide conversations, and for the students, it is a means to learn, prepare, and improve their subject understanding.

To gauge the learning curve

For any learning experience to become complete, assessments are crucial. And how do educators assess? But asking questions! Questions are an important instrument, in that sense, for teachers to assess and evaluate their students. Evaluation measures the learning outcomes and helps the educators identify knowledge gaps. Additionally, educators leverage questions not just to measure the strength of their students, but to also gauge the overall learning experience to see if the teaching mechanism needs any modification.

To develop learners’ assertiveness

All educators wish for their students to successfully take on challenges. Answering questions correctly develop the necessary self-confidence for students. Mock tests, flashcards, group discussions, and more, play a big role in gaining comprehensive knowledge and preparing students thoroughly for any competitive academic challenges. When an educator poses questions and learners attempt to answer them, the latter get in control of the conversation. This goes a long way in building learners’ confidence and assuring them that they are on the right learning path. 

To drive participatory learning

Questions have the power to make learning interactive. However, the involvement and participation of the students rest on the quality of the questions. A well-designed question encourages students to think proactively and liven up the learning experience. Thankfully, no longer do educators rely on a simple question-answer format to seek responses from the learners. Quizzes, games, interactive assessments, are some of the ways educators are now connecting with the learners. Educators are also looking at some interesting platforms which allow combining different tools to present questions uniquely. For example, QuilliQuiz – Quillionz’s flashcard can be shared with learners using Raptivity, an interaction-building tool. This is a great way to create self-assessments, which can be fun too!

To encourage active learning strategies

Questions can empower, engage, and stimulate a classroom. As the well-known advocate of active learning James Ballencia says, “With the goal of teaching mindful learners who actively pursue knowledge, teachers become more actively engaged in how they teach the curriculum and how they develop each student’s learning potential. They mix and match a variety of tactics to ensure that students not only learn more, better, and faster – they also learn smarter.”

With the help of good questions, educators can put students at the center of the learning process as they take the initiative to learn. This decreases the habit of rote learning and instead fosters a holistic learning culture.

Questions are the Answer to Build Learning Environment

Proper questioning techniques are important in the teaching and learning process. They make it easier for educators to get feedback from the learners and accordingly improve the teaching process. This is important for enhancing learner motivation and promoting positive, critical, and creative thinking in the class.

The way questions are framed also stimulates learner thinking. Questioning is one of the most effective ways to get students involved in the delivery of the lesson. This is exactly where Quillionz has a role to play. Quillionz helps educators leverage the unique power of question creation. With intelligent AI algorithms that understand the content that is fed in, Quillionz lets educators create a host of questions in a matter of seconds. No wonder it has made a name for itself as the world’s first AI-powered platform for creating questions, quizzes, and notes.

Click here to learn more about how Quillionz can help you explore the true potential of quality questions.

We all remember scribbling down important words as the professor delivered a lecture. Ever wondered if the professors also take down notes before teaching? As a matter of fact, they do. Note-taking is just as a necessary activity for educators as it is for the learners.

Educators need to take notes to ensure that the entire course material is well covered. It helps them select the key points they need to emphasize and also quickly highlight the source of the information when needed. Studies have shown that if a summary of learning material is ready, it assists in delivering a smooth teaching session. Unfortunately, note-taking is often an underestimated process. Selecting key points and getting them ready in an easy-to-deliver fashion requires sincere effort. The quality of notes, quantity (yes, some educators do confuse writing down an entire page as “summary”), format, are a few of the areas that demand a thorough thought before one gets into note-taking. Let us look at the best practices for educators to take notes. 

Pointers on Taking Notes

Make a hierarchy of ideas – Poorly organized ideas can be confusing when teaching. Before the lecture, it would be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the topic and the materials required. Remember, your own engagement will reflect in the learners’ active participation.

Recognize important cues – Be selective and highlight the points which need to be elaborated beyond the written text. Think if any of those need a quick visual illustration or a sketch and prepare one accordingly. The goal here is to help the learners identify and capture the important ideas and later on be able to express those in the evaluation or assessments.

Review before and after class – Go through your key ideas for a couple of minutes and apply a framework to your thought process. This will give you time to review the quality and quantity of the notes. You can tie new concepts and ideas to the points, and rewrite for better organization and legibility.

Provide a lecture framework – It would be a good idea to provide some form of guided or skeletal notes to the students. Of course, there needs to be a balance between how much ready-made content to give to the students, but a simple outline with some room for the learners to develop their own notes should suffice. This is particularly helpful to keep the topic understanding in sync between the educator and the learner.

The Cornell note-taking method – there are several techniques (some scientifically developed; others individually devised) for taking out lecture notes. One such that has proved its worth is the Cornell Note Taking. It was developed by Prof. Walter Pauk of Cornell University in the 1950s and focuses on taking, organizing, and reviewing notes. You can read more about it here. What makes it special though is that it encourages you to reflect on your notes by making you ask yourself questions – works well with learners as well as educators! 

The Right Way to Do It

Here’s the good thing that comes with technology – handy tools for quality notes. There are a couple of those available, either paid or free of cost, depending on the features you decide to choose. For instance, there’s

• Scriblink – This is an online whiteboard that lets you draw or write on a digital canvas. It opens in your web browser, comes with a simple toolbox, and has a built-in conference system so you can add participants and share the whiteboard or save your work for future references.
• Padlet – With this one, you can copy-paste or drag and drop images and text pieces from other web pages.

While these (and more like these) are mostly tools for documenting and sharing content, they don’t necessarily help in creating notes from scratch and automatically. If that is your concern, you will need to check Quillionz Test – the world’s first AI-powered teaching assistant. Quillionz Test works as a summary generator and creates editable notes from the content you key in/paste, using its AI capabilities. Imagine writing a summary of an article within seconds! Users prefer calling it summary notes or precis and vouch for it as the best app for making notes. In fact, one of the most loved features of Quillionz Test is its ability to highlight key portions of the text and summarizing the main points, as this is hugely helpful in reinforcing the core concepts.

What are your tips, as an educator, to take high-quality notes? How do you summarize the text? You can write to us at info@quillionz.com or leave your comments below.