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The Planet Captivate Blog – Cognitive Load

Adobe Captivate

Jim, spending several years working in the eLearning industry, has helped open my eyes to countless considerations that differ from my background as a traditional secondary educator. However, one topic that Jim has helped me to better understand is that of cognitive load. EXAMPLE: Reading an article in the newspaper.

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Cognitive Bias: When Our Brain Plays Tricks On Us

KnowledgeOne

We are all quite familiar with the phenomenon of optical illusions, but less so with the phenomenon of cognitive biases. The underside of cognitive bias. Some 250 cognitive biases are generally classified into one of the following five categories: Bias… our perception is affected by… attentive or of attention.

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Cognitive Bias in Education: the Pygmalion Effect

KnowledgeOne

These erroneous judgments are called cognitive biases, and some 250 different ones are known to date. According to developmental psychologist and neuroscientist Olivier Houdé, the way to do this is to develop “cognitive resistance” or “learning to think against oneself” (see The 3 speeds of thought ).

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Plain Language for Course Creators: Enhancing Clarity and Engagement

CourseArc

In this article, we explore how training materials can be revised using plain language to improve the learning experience. At this learning center, educators use a training method that emphasizes problem-solving skills. Clarity and Comprehension : Online learners come from different cultural, linguistic, and educational backgrounds.

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Growth Mindset, AI, and More: ID Links 3/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on growth mindset, an AI tool for instructional design, branching scenarios, accessibility, and a magazine issue with elearning articles by multiple prominent authors. Growth mindset Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Developing a Growth Mindset Help Students Learn? We know there aren’t any silver bullets.

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Autonomy in Learning: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Self- training is also distinct from individualization in education, experiential learning and distance learning, the three approaches with which it is most often confused. It dynamically integrates the fundamental aspects of the act of learning: cognition, motivation, metacognition and volition.

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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

KnowledgeOne

” 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.