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Attention is underrated

Upside Learning

Attention is a complex phenomenon. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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Attention is underrated

Clark Quinn

Attention is a complex phenomena. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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5 Ideas To Getting Online Learners’ Attention

eLearning Industry

Getting learners' attention and holding onto it is a problem that most course creators and educators face. So what can they do to bring learners in and keep them engaged? This article lists down 5 ideas that could work. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Scenario-Based Learning for Learning Impact Podcast

Experiencing eLearning

How do you increase learning impact through scenario-based learning? Scenario-based learning is one way to provide that practice with feedback to help learners improve their performance. Addressing Misconceptions: Learn to tackle common misconceptions through realistic scenarios. Tuesday, April 23, 7:30-8:15 EDT.

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Digital Learning Tips and Tricks from Neuroscience

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo

How can you capture and keep learner attention in a world of alerts, pop-ups, and "clickbait?" What does neuroscience tell us about digital learning - and what does that mean for the way you design and deliver learning experiences? Things you can stop doing today to create a better, more brain-aware learning experience.

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Friday Finds — Animations & Learning, Attention Span, Learning Sciences

Mike Taylor

sponsored by iSpring Sign up here to get Friday Finds in your inbox every Friday “You cannot learn what you think you already know.” Last Week’s Most Clicked Do more with Google Docs News & Notes People Pay Attention Better Today Than 30 Years Ago — Really! Learn more → Do Instructional Animations Help or Hinder Learning?

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Using Decreasing Attention Spans to your Advantage

Origin Learning

We have been constantly bombarded with data-driven reports and survey-results that mark the sharp dip in learner attention-spans. These reports also highlight the reduced attention span among learners in the corporate world. One – memory capacity of learners is reducing and two – the dwindling attention spans. Video Nuggets.

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation. In this webinar, you will learn how to: Create dynamic visuals that support persuasive stories to engage your audience.

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Legendary Presentations: eLearning, Sales Collateral, and Defeating Death-by-PowerPoint

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director, BrightCarbon

You end up with click-through eLearning that’s just not interesting - and unengaged people don’t learn. We’ll work together in a highly practical, demo-led session, in which you’ll learn how to create visual slides, manipulate images, master animations, make it interactive, and produce content that will delight your audience.

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Give Your Microlearning Strategy a Makeover

Speaker: Margie Meacham

But it’s not so easy to change the way you design learning. With disruptive technologies changing the nature of work, you’re facing pressure to produce more results with less – less time, smaller staffs, fewer resources and shorter learner attention spans. You’ll learn…. Then there’s the challenge of all that existing content.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ll focus on how to make content relevant to your learners, how to make connections so they see how the material applies to them, and how to develop strategies for getting learners to care about your course.

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.