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Manage Cognitive Load in Digital Learning

B Online Learning

It’s widely accepted that our memory system consists of three components – a sensory memory that receives information from our surroundings, a working memory to process this information and also to retrieve information from our long-term memory. Three Types of Cognitive Load. It leverages our learning process.

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Learning Science: The Coherence Principle Decoded

Mike Taylor

A Tale of Cognitive Overload Your learners’ brains are not infinite vessels; they have a limit on how much they can process at a given time, a concept explored by cognitive load theory. Another study led by Paul Ayres in 2013 established that learners who faced excessive cognitive load exhibited a decline in performance[2].

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Stress and Learning: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

C) One of the effects of cortisol (the stress hormone) is to sharpen our ability to memorize information that, in a stressful situation, is useful to our survival so that we’re warned and better equipped in the event of a similar experience. B) Chronic stress provides high-potential students with enhanced cognitive performance.

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Competition & Cooperation in Gamification

Kapp Notes

For more information on content and structural gamification, click HERE. Crawford, 2003). 2003) Chris Crawford on game design. A Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Serious Games. Some thoughts on competition and cooperation for learning within the context of gamification. Competition. Crawford, C.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.

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The learning professional as storyteller

Clive on Learning

Back in 2003, I devoted a great deal of energy to the design of a new CD-ROM course entitled Ten Ways to Avoid Death by PowerPoint. Cognitively speaking, every experience, every relationship, every object is stored in the mind as a story." They will structure this information and support it with visual aids and practical exercises.

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Online training in empathic mode

KnowledgeOne

Empathy consists of two dimensions, one emotional and the other cognitive. In order to use empathy as a pedagogical tool, it is imperative that the teacher be interested in the cognitive dimension of this notion, which is, in fact, the dimension on which he or she can intervene. Empathetic, from listening to action.