| Year | 2010 50 Downloads |
| Volume/Issue/Review Month | Vol. - 3 | Issue 2 | July |
| Title | Creating an Effective Learning Environment : A Dose of Laughter Helps |
| Authors | Dr. K. K. Patra |
| Broad area | A Dose of Laughter Helps |
| Abstract | Humor is a valuable teaching tool for establishing a classroom climate conducive to learning. This article identifies opportunities for incorporating humor in the college classroom, reviews the impact of humor on learning outcomes, and suggests guidelines for the appropriate use of humor. Humor can be used effectively as a strategy in the class room to increase a student’s performance, producing positive physiological benefits, reviews the impact of humor on learning outcomes and suggests guidelines for the appropriate use of humor. Humor is a valuable teaching tool for establishing a classroom climate conducive to learning. Today learning and training has a greater impact on the skill of teacher, which are advocating management oriented approach to evaluate the e-learning. This paper identifies opportunities for incorporating humor in the college classroom, reviews the impact of humor on learning outcomes, and suggests guidelines for the appropriate use of humor. |
| DOI | Humor is a consequence of language. Language is an approximation of thoughts through symbolic manipulation, and the gap between the expectations inherent in those symbols and the breaking of those expectations leads to laughter. Irony is explicitly this f |
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