By Sunidhi Beeliya
Online learning is a significant investment for those willing to advance their careers, upgrade their skill set, or change careers while pursuing a full-time degree program or doing a job. Engaging the learners, eliminating monotonousness, and motivating them for continuous learning is the key priority of an e-learning program.
Assignments, quizzes, and industrial projects play a major role in attracting and engaging learners with multiple responsibilities and different goals. As a higher training completion rate indicates that learners are able to meet their goals and course developers are serving their customers right, a variety of assessments are included in the training to benefit both parties with different purposes. Let's take a look at a few forms of online assessment techniques and how they make the online learning experience better.
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Quizzes also help in detecting gaps in learning. Incorrect answers to any questions help develop an understanding of what concepts are the learners lagging behind in and encourages them to revisit those topics and strengthen their knowledge. While solving quizzes, learners get a different perspective of the subject matter, reduce stress, test themselves, develop enthusiasm to continue learning and complete upcoming challenges, build confidence when they witness their progress, and help in revising the concepts.
Reading and listening comprehension builds language understanding and accuracy. Pixabay
In such features, let us say if a student is learning French, the learners see a word like 'Félicitations' it's phonetic 'fayli-si-taa-sion' and its audio pronunciation on the screen. After going through these, the learners could record themselves speaking the word/phrase via the microphone and check if their pronunciation is correct or not.
Reading and listening comprehension builds language understanding and accuracy, tests all the aspects of a language and polishes overall professional communication ability, and has a positive impact on learning. It also motivates learners to explore new words, practice more, and make their skills better. Overall, the feature tests one's ability to present themselves in the real world and apply their language skills professionally.
Multiple projects to assess learners' knowledge of every module is essential in online training. Assignments usually differ based on the subject: so, in a digital marketing training where the learners conduct a website SEO audit, create an email campaign, or Google ad campaign, in a C and C++ training they would create a cricket game or gully cricket app. This clearly defines that assignments and projects are focused on creating a habit of practice, sharpening domain knowledge, and making them internship/ job-ready. Projects or assignments reinforce the concepts learned during lectures, motivate for exploring more, help in completing the training on time, improve learners' performance, give the instructor insight into learners' in-depth learning ability, validate the skills, and add weight to learners resumes.
Courtesy: Internshala Trainings (trainings.internshala.com) – an online training platform
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