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APRIL 19, 2012

A third category that you would fit in if you had the time, probably just skimming through or paying partial attention to. All those events and learning resources to which you pay no attention to at all. Events which are interesting enough that you’d definitely make time to watch on TV. Others that you have no interest in at all.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Cammy Bean did a great job in her session yesterday, called Clicky, clicky, bling, bling , of drawing attention to the absurd lengths to which we sometimes now go supposedly to engage the learner. Extravagant, glitzy graphics don't entice me to pay attention; they signal that I'm about to be presented with a commercial. It's gloss.

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APRIL 29, 2012

StrumSchool is a site, set up by Benjamin Shapiro, that teaches beginners how to play basic guitar fundamentals for free, with a curriculum of instructional videos, downloadable documents and 'a dash of personal attention'. From what I can see it's funded by donations and ads.

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APRIL 22, 2015

If the learning professional pays disproportionate attention to these interests, then what harm can they do to learners? They can fail to engage them emotionally, so they never really pay attention. They can overwhelm them with content, leaving them frazzled.

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APRIL 22, 2015

If the learning professional pays disproportionate attention to these interests, then what harm can they do to learners? They can fail to engage them emotionally, so they never really pay attention. They can overwhelm them with content, leaving them frazzled.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 27, 2018

There are at least three key factors all competing for attention, and it's very difficult to concentrate on them all: Three considerations The first major consideration is the subject matter itself. In any project that involves the design and development of learning content, there are competing priorities which can be hard to reconcile.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

It’s not often that I find something of relevance to learning technologies in my local Brighton paper, but the report in the Argus last Wednesday certainly got my attention. East Sussex County Council has created a simulator which members of the public can use to have their own go at deciding where the budget cuts should come.

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MAY 4, 2020

then consider delivering some elements face-to-face Except, of course, that option 3 is not available at the moment. So, make option 2 work.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Normally I skim read any non-fiction book in an hour or two but, because this is exactly what Carr is warning against, I felt obliged to skim this with my full attention (if that makes any sense). It took me a while to get through Nicholas Carr's excellent new book The Shallows (Atlantic Books, 2010).

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MARCH 15, 2011

This will gain the audience’s attention and encourage you to speak sufficiently loudly. The danger is that they’ll read ahead and you’ll lose their attention. Summarise Audiences have a limited attention span and will remember little from a presentation, so make sure that what they do remember is what is important.

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APRIL 14, 2009

"The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus the more elaborately the information will be encoded - and retained." For two reasons: First of all, memory is not proportional to attention. Yes, attention can influence memory. Are these things even true? They don't strike me as being true at all. " Um, no.

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AUGUST 19, 2010

seems there are three key factors all competing for attention, and that it's very difficult to concentrate on them all: The first major consideration is the subject matter itself. What has emerged, at least from my point of view, is a greater clarity about the considerations that drive decision making in both design and development.It

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MAY 4, 2012

I decided to argue instead for the idea that e-learning (defined very broadly) is where attention should be focused given the problems we're currently facing in workplace learning. I definitely got the short straw because it's impossible to defend an absolute. And of course e-learning is not the only way.

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APRIL 23, 2012

This caught my attention because I'm a great believer in and keen user of this approach. Stephen Downes pointed out an article in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning by Neus Capdeferro and Margarida Romero entitled Are online learners frustrated with collaborative learning experiences?

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JULY 27, 2018

You cannot hold a conversation while playing a video game, as both tasks require conscious attention and humans cannot truly multi-task.' So, add an example: 'You can hold a conversation while going for a run with a friend.

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MAY 26, 2010

Connie Malamed's posting First iPad University Course drew my attention to the mini MBA course being put together by Rutgers University and Apple’s higher education team. Would this announcement have attracted any attention if Rutgers had provided their students with ready-loaded netbooks? Then I engaged my brain.

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JANUARY 5, 2012

It only takes a couple of weeks for me to shift my attention almost entirely to matters other than learning technology, so I shouldn't have much trouble retiring when the time comes. I'm finding it hard to regain my focus after the holidays. So, this post acts as a way for me to re-focus on the issues that need addressing in 2012.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

My response was that although this benefit appeared to be very real, it was a dangerous game for learning and development to play. When the axe starts to fall, could they really justify running what was essentially a form of corporate therapy?

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

The very best presenters will always hold attention. Presenters tackling issues which are highly relevant to the participants will always hold attention. It is a fact of life that some participants will choose not to participate at some events and will stay glued to their toys.

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JUNE 21, 2011

We suffer from the menace of continuous partial attention. She was sharing her thoughts about the emerging role of the curator in organisations which have established systems to encourage user-generated content. Julie's argument for curation went as follows: We really can have too much information. Overload causes depression.

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AUGUST 27, 2009

whereas human brains take a second or two to switch attention. According to work conducted at Stanford University and reported by Constance Holden in Science NOW Daily News under the heading Multitasking muddles the mind , "cognitive performance declines when people try to pay attention to many media channels at once.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

You have to be well organised and have an attention to detail. Having said that, some people are better suited to some tasks than others, and e-learning development is no different. You have to enjoy making stuff. You have to feel some sort of affinity with technology.

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MARCH 25, 2014

With the Serious eLearning Manifesto drawing attention to a current lack of e-learning design skills, as evidenced by more than a little tedious and ineffective content out there, it got me thinking about what it takes to be a good designer.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

When you’re confronted day after day by hundreds, if not thousands, of emails, tweets, status updates, blog posts and text messages, it’s amazing how skilful we become at weeding out the communications that deserve our attention. If we didn’t, we’d soon be completely overwhelmed.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Using the ‘open source’ model (the term is borrowed from software development rather imprecisely but captures your attention), the designer provides the subject expert with very basic design skills and proceeds to act as a coach and helper side-by-side with the expert. This process is time consuming and adversarial.

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APRIL 22, 2009

Twice blessed : Children brought up in a bilingual home have an enhanced ability to organise, plan, prioritise, shift attention from one thing to another and suppress habitual responses. Incognito : Evidence is mounting that the brain makes a decision before the owner knows about it.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The case for resources There’s nothing wrong with courses as such, it’s just that we place too much attention on them and not enough on what happens afterwards. They make little provision for follow-up once the course has been completed. By and large, we would do well to teach much less and provide much more in the way of support.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Chris Anderson’s article The web is dead: long live the internet , in the August edition of Wired magazine, has attracted a lot of attention, including mine, but for many the title of the article would mean very little.

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AUGUST 28, 2008

The debate was already red hot before this video by Professor Daniel T Willingham from the University of Virginia (brought to my attention by Stephen Downes ) added fuel to the fire. On the one side are the learning and development romantics, all voodoo and crystals, holding firm to their pseudo-psychological beliefs.

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APRIL 5, 2011

There’s nothing wrong with courses as such, it’s just that place too much attention on them and not enough to what happens afterwards. By and large, we would do well to teach much less and provide much more in the way of support. See my previous posting on courses and resources.

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DECEMBER 4, 2017

Myth 2: Micro-learning works because nowadays people have shorter attention spans This idea is widespread that somehow people have changed because of their experience of digital media so that they no longer have the capability enjoyed by humans for tens of thousands of years to concentrate in order to achieve things that require time.

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JULY 28, 2008

It does this without undue complication and I can see it being a great way of focusing attention on an educational topic or project. Intodit allows you to establish a group site with a combination of wiki and forum functionality. By the way, I joined the Coldplay fan group!

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JULY 19, 2012

If you’re used to being the centre of attention you may find this hard, but I reckon most learning people adapt to this role without too much difficulty. These days a great deal of that guiding is going to be online, using web sites, forums, wikis, blogs and all sorts of communities of practice.

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JUNE 1, 2010

In particular they are concerned that learners might regard their content as low quality in comparison with commercial video games, movies and other mass media, and therefore not worthy of their attention.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

But I'm sure that many l&d professionals will be able to identify with the basic idea - after all, we've all struggled at times to get through to audiences who just don't care enough about what we have to say to give the subject their full attention. There are important implications.

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JULY 27, 2009

Here are some of the findings that grabbed my attention: A large majority (67%) would like their employer to offer more opportunities for learning and 76% think they could be more effective and productive at work if these were offered.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I don’t personally see micro-learning as evidence of shorter attention spans as is sometimes claimed. So there is curious.com, with 13,000 lessons from 1500 teachers; coursmos, with 50,000 videos organised into 11,000 courses; and Highbrow, which will email you 5-minute lessons displayed as text and graphics.

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