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4 Benefits of AI for Learners… and Teachers

KnowledgeOne

This is the case, for example, with the correction of objective answers in exams, or the creation of formative tests and quizzes. So, instead of repeating to the learner the notions studied, AI can design tests whose questions, pace and user options (a pause button, for example) are designed to stimulate memory retrieval.

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3 Ages of the Brain Under the Microscope of Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

The driving force behind this dynamic process is a cognitive activity, particularly learning. Thus, even in adulthood, learning would be the best way to improve or maintain our cognitive abilities or slow down their decline. Automation and cognitive inhibition. Neural recycling.

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Virtual reality for pain management

KnowledgeOne

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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A Brief History of AI

Learningtogo

Humans have been using machines to augment our capabilities for a long time, so it’s only natural that we’ve come to a point where we’re looking to replicate our cognitive processes in some of those machines. Alan Turing predicts that machines might one day mimic the cognitive functions of humans. A Brief History of AI.

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The 8-second attention span; or, I'm fine if goldfish are more patient than millennials

Ontuitive

In spring of 2014, Microsoft Canada released the results of a study on media consumers that claimed attention spans are shrinking. In spring of 2014, Microsoft Canada released the results of a study on media consumers that claimed attention spans are shrinking.

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

For example, learning the latest application to execute mundane procedures in your organization, a recent job-aid update, a research release tutorial that demonstrates the need for a change and how to implement the change in a business process of your organization, a new equipment training, a sought-after certification training. Cichon, J.,

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Is eLearning Dead? Is Instructional Design Dying with It?

Kapp Notes

” So for example, the report indicates that “product substitution is the major inhibitor in the Middle East with consumers opting for Mobile Learning products over self-paced courseware.” ” The report calls the concept of the newer technologies replacing the older technology as “Product Substitution.”