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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

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” In active engagement, the learner is an actor in their learning and mobilizes as many of their cognitive skills as possible. Action, trial and error and emotions therefore play important roles in learning,” explains cognitive development and learning specialist Olivier Houdé in his book L’école du cerveau.

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Spaced Retrieval, Retrieval Practice, and Knowledge Guru: What Research Tells Us

Knowledge Guru

Spaced Retrieval involves providing students with quiz or course content spaced over time and it, too, is among the most robust findings in educational psychology research. [4] As the researchers indicated, “In our experiments, when we asked students if they were mind-wandering, they said yes roughly 40 percent of the time.

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Virtual reality for pain management

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In addition, VR is also beneficial as a physiotherapy and rehabilitation tool – especially following a stroke, or to improve the motor skills or physical condition of the elderly or those living with specific disabilities – as well as to stimulate the cognitive abilities of older adults with mild cognitive impairment.

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Singapore Learning Symposium Resources #SLS2013

Kapp Notes

A Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Serious Games. Here is a slide deck that references many of the slides and research from this session. Also referenced was research about games and cognition supported by a grant from DSO National Laboratories , Singapore. Advanced online publication.

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Motivation: a driving force for learning engagement

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Motivation is the momentum that drives us to act and think in one way or another, a process that is both cognitive and emotional, influenced by a combination of factors that are internal and external to us. Neuroscience has just shed new light on the relationship between cognition and emotion, two components inherent in engagement.

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Online training in empathic mode

KnowledgeOne

Empathy consists of two dimensions, one emotional and the other cognitive. The first refers to the ability to feel the emotional state of the other. We will focus in this article on a definition that is meaningful and applicable in a pedagogical context. 42; Dupont, 2010; Dussarps, 2015). According to Professor Richard G.

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3 Myths That Prevent You from Learning

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But what about the quality of your productivity, more precisely your cognitive performance? To this question, the preliminary conclusions of the largest ever conducted study on sleep indicate that sleeping 7 to 8 hours a day would be necessary to enjoy an optimal cognitive performance.