About This Book

Layering services is a concept that involves adding content to raw information to guide learning. Educators and instructional designers can use layering services to influence the learning process by providing prompts, questions, and feedback. This can help students gain attention, inform them of objectives, recall prior learning, present content, provide guidance, practice, feedback, and assess performance. Layering services can also be used to enhance retention and transfer of knowledge.

Top Highlights

• Readers are less accurate in estimating their level of understanding when reading from a screen and tend to believe they understand better than is actually the case. Without accurate insights into what is making sense and what is not, a reader cannot take efficient remedial actions such as the rereading of specific sections of text.
• The same or similar software can be used to annotate video from other sources and for other reasons. Why could this be useful? I would make the case based on two observations. First, the notion of using video to flip the classroom
• Both internal and external behaviors can be modeled.
• The word layering is intended to provoke an image of a relationship between the content being studied and either a) content added by a teacher/designer to guide the processing of the material being studied or b) content added by the learner to improve the understanding or retention of this material.
• Much of the content we encounter online is raw content (information) rather than educational content.