3 Ways to Improve Your Training Programs with Cognitive Learning Theory Tools
BizLibrary
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
What is Cognitive Learning Theory? Cognitive learning theory (CLT) is a psychological perspective focused on the way our brains learn best.
Cognitive Bias: When Our Brain Plays Tricks On Us
KnowledgeOne
JULY 14, 2020
We are all quite familiar with the phenomenon of optical illusions, but less so with the phenomenon of cognitive biases. These mental shortcuts that allow the brain to simplify information processing are inevitable, but we can learn to detect them better, starting with a better knowledge of them. In your brain. of judgment.
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A Cognitive Audit?
Clark Quinn
JANUARY 11, 2017
In the recent Chief Learning Officer magazine, I wrote an article on the basics of the cognitive science of learning. And therefore, I reckon L&D needs to know the cognitive background. Knowing a suitable level of cognitive science is one thing, using that to assess your practices is another. The post A Cognitive Audit?
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Cognitive biases: test your knowledge!
KnowledgeOne
DECEMBER 9, 2021
Do you know what a cognitive bias is and how many there are to date? Are you aware that certain cognitive biases must be taken seriously in the teaching world? Can you tell a cognitive bias from a myth? Cognitive biases are perceptual distortions that can be said to be to our mind what optical illusions are to our visual system.
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What is Learning Experience Design?
eLearningMind
OCTOBER 1, 2021
In contrast, Learning Experience Design is more focused on meeting the needs of learners through a holistic approach that takes into account cognitive science , user experience design (UX), the learning environment, and instructional design. And good LxD is a big part of employee performance.
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Learning Experience Design: Everything You Need to Know
eLearningMind
JANUARY 15, 2021
Understanding the appropriate solutions for the desired cognitive level of corporate learners is a big part of an LxD’s job. Well-designed digital learning is helping companies retain the best employees; shape employee growth; create a more connected company culture; promote inclusion; increase worker safety—and even increase revenue.
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3 Ages of the Brain Under the Microscope of Neuroscience
KnowledgeOne
MAY 27, 2021
Over the last few decades, neuroscience has begun to confirm or refute certain hypotheses we had about how the brain works, in addition to leading us down new paths of knowledge. However, thanks to brain imaging, we know a little more about some of its particularities at different stages of life and their links with learning.
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Less myths, please
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 18, 2022
I had the pleasure of being the opening keynote at the People Matters L&D conference in Mumbai this past week, with a theme of ‘disruption’ In it, I talked about some particular myths and their relation to our understanding of our own brains. Following my presentation, I sat through some other presentations.
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Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
In an earlier post, I made a defense of cognitive psychology (really, to me, cognitive science, a bigger umbrella). Learning science is an interdisciplinary field, including cognitive science, educational psychology, and more. We shouldn’t be using courses when job aids will suffice, as cognitive science tells us.
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10 Cognitive biases that hurt learning and 3 that help
Matrix
AUGUST 1, 2019
Turn cognitive biases into opportunities. Unfortunately, our brain does not function in that way. Cognitive biases develop naturally throughout our lives as we learn from experiences and establish some “mental short-cuts” to navigate new situations and make decisions. 10 Cognitive biases that hurt learning.
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Learning and the Brain
eLearning Brothers
JULY 18, 2018
Or are we all just using different terms to promote the need for aligning how our organizations work with how our brains work? We hosted a great webinar a while back with cognitive scientist Carmen Simon. Today, we have our own in-house cognitive science expert, Marty Rosenheck! Marty’s Session.
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Solving Cognitive Overload with Point of Need Tools
Saffron Interactive
NOVEMBER 15, 2019
Why are workers struggling with cognitive overload? Let’s start with the background of why cognitive overload has crept up on us. An abundance of information and a culture of immediacy. The demand for convenience grows with technology’s ability to provide it, creating a culture of immediacy in the consumer market.
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Deploy brain-friendly leadership models in your organization
CLO Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2020
According to our data, the key is to design brain-friendly leadership models that help leaders answer three questions. Employees have so many demands that eat up precious resources in the brain. NLI worked with the company to design their brain-based leadership model. Question No. 1: Can I remember this?
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Digital Learning from the Perspective of Affective and Social Neuroscience
KnowledgeOne
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
This is the subject of one of the chapters in “Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience” by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience. ” Emotional and social neuroscience on learning First, a word about neuroscience.
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What 21st Century Science Says About Memorable Learning Experience At Work
Thinkdom
FEBRUARY 29, 2024
Learning is a complex process influenced by a variety of cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Information that is new, important, and tied to one’s personal life goals has increased chances of being stored and remembered by the brain. So, how does one put that into practice while developing training modules?
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Future of the Workforce
Learningtogo
DECEMBER 31, 2019
The human species has faced many disruptive periods before and, so far, we’ve managed to adapt, thanks to the neuroplasticity of our brains. So, a good place to begin is with the human brain and how it learns. Fortunately, your brain is plastic and is a learning machine, but not everyone knows how to access that ability.
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Future of the Workforce
Learningtogo
AUGUST 26, 2021
The human species has faced many disruptive periods before and, so far, we’ve managed to adapt, thanks to the neuroplasticity of our brains. So, a good place to begin is with the human brain and how it learns. Optogenetic devices that can turn neurons on or off by shining different frequencies of light onto the brain.
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Where Does Our Conception of Learning Come From?
KnowledgeOne
AUGUST 12, 2020
Cultural background. School culture. Cognitive development. Familial cultural beliefs. Cognitive Bias: When Our Brain Plays Tricks On Us. Society’s expectations and beliefs. Teaching context. Teachers’ conceptions of learning and teaching. Instructional method. Assessment method. Curriculum.
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Organizational Psychology?
Clark Quinn
JULY 13, 2018
My background is psychology, specifically the cognitive kind (ok more cog sci than just psych, but still). And so I’ve been pushing the idea of doing a cognitive analysis of organizations, and incorporating new understandings of cognition in how we run our companies, and more. So is L&D a subset?
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Future of the Workforce
Learningtogo
DECEMBER 31, 2019
The human species has faced many disruptive periods before and, so far, we’ve managed to adapt, thanks to the neuroplasticity of our brains. So, a good place to begin is with the human brain and how it learns. Optogenetic devices that can turn neurons on or off by shining different frequencies of light onto the brain.
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Improving Instructional Design with Images, Illustrations, and Animation
eLearningMind
DECEMBER 14, 2022
You’ve probably heard that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Perhaps you even know that MIT found that the brain could recognize images in as little as 13 milliseconds—literally in the blink of an eye. But do you know why brains love images over other forms of information?
When learning experience design goes wrong
Learning Pool
JULY 17, 2020
We talked to numerous experts on learning theory in the course of preparing our White Paper: Experience: Theory, Design and Supporting Technologies for an experience-based Learning Culture. Cognitive overload (overuse of media) . What is missing is relevant effort and cognitive effort, that makes one think, rather than click.’ .
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Availability bias in the AI era: Understanding its impact on decision-making
TalentLMS
SEPTEMBER 18, 2023
The output is right in front of us, so our brains think it’s the best option. Our brains like to work efficiently, so if we’ve got information that serves our purpose, we’re often happy to rely on it without further investigation. Include courses and resources focused on cognitive biases, critical thinking, and decision-making.
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Future of the Workforce
Learningtogo
DECEMBER 26, 2019
The human species has faced many disruptive periods before and, so far, we’ve managed to adapt, thanks to the neuroplasticity of our brains. So, a good place to begin is with the human brain and how it learns. Fortunately, your brain is plastic and is a learning machine, but not everyone knows how to access that ability.
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Elucidat
MAY 23, 2018
What does it take to make brain-friendly learning? Stella offers six key ways you can work with the brain to help make learning stick, all wrapped up in the useful (and brain friendly) acronym: LEARNS. Learning design: meet brain science. It’s basic brain science. Forget the short-term memory fixes.
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How The ABC Model Of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Changed My Life
eLearning Industry
OCTOBER 31, 2020
We falsely rationalize that an event (A) is responsible for how we feel or for the consequences (C). We aren't even aware that we have a rational belief (RB) or irrational belief (IRB) in between. In our ignorant minds, the model is simpler, it is the AC model. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.
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10 Online Onboarding Tips
Ed App
SEPTEMBER 6, 2021
Outline the organization’s values and culture. Exemplifying the organization’s values and culture to new employees is essential to prepare them on what to expect when they begin at the company. Avoid cognitive overload. Cognitive overload occurs when too much information is fed to the human brain at a time.
How can organizations ensure completion of online learning?
Creativ Technologies
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
It has been discovered that our Brain development and consequent learning are highly affected by physiological conditions, including emotional and cultural well-being. Hence the individuals must not feel discriminated against because it can be detrimental to their cognition and learning. Emotional well being.
Articulate Storyline – 9 Practical Ways To Make A Great Course Within Your Budget
Spark Your Interest
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
These include, Managing Cognitive Load: Cognitive load refers to the number of working memory resources a person is using. Heavy cognitive load can have adverse effects on task completion. And it’s important to note that the experience of cognitive load is not the same in everyone. Readiness Of Your Content.
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Moving from Onboarding to “Warm Welcomes”
Learning Rebels
AUGUST 26, 2021
This might be a Slack workspace, private LinkedIn group, or password protected website for new hires to chat with other newbies, experience company culture stories, or nail the small details like where to park. This is telling the culture story. Build a culture of inclusiveness. There a lot of cognitive overload potential.
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5 Surprising Facts About Our Cognitive Processes
KnowledgeOne
MARCH 6, 2024
Are you familiar with the cognitive processes of attention, working memory, inhibition, and metacognition? To satisfy your curiosity and enhance your learning, here are five surprising and useful facts about some of our cognitive processes. 2008; Klingberg, 2010; Klingberg et al. 2005; McNab et al., 2009; Olesen et al.,
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5 Practices to Create a Culture of Innovation
Ed App
AUGUST 25, 2019
Creating a culture of innovation, even when it has observable advantages, is difficult. In this blogpost, I will discuss the five ways in which a custom online learning helps create a culture of innovation in individuals and organizations. It requires a number of years from the time of its inception to the time it is widely imbibed.
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Friday Finds — Good Mistakes, Science of Learning, Working Out Loud
Mike Taylor
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Turns out that the key to learning from failure is creating a culture of psychological safety where people feel comfortable admitting mistakes, as well as having proper data and analysis to determine what works and what doesn’t. What could you achieve with a focused, productive brain? What on earth was going on? Where’s Mike?
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Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter from “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School”
Adobe Captivate
NOVEMBER 4, 2018
Chapter 1: “ Learning: From Speculation to Science ,” from How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School , by Bransford, Brown, and Cocking. The post Recommended Reading Summary: A Chapter from “How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School” appeared first on eLearning.
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Leading Teams Through Leading Self
TIER1 Performance
SEPTEMBER 5, 2023
Our brains are extraordinary, with extraordinary energy needs; at a resting state it requires nearly 20 percent of your daily calories. Our brains are chock full of dozens of cognitive biases. Negatively impacting people and culture? The business results remained strong, and the culture strengthened.
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Leaderboards in L&D Are Sexist
CLO Magazine
OCTOBER 5, 2018
Although the cultural and societal underpinnings for these gender differences is beyond the scope of this report, these differences exist. By combining several existing lines of research, I theorized that an alignment between an individual’s motivational style and the task incentive will increase cognitive effort, and ultimately learning.
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Leading Teams Through Leading Self
TIER1 Performance
AUGUST 16, 2023
Our brains are extraordinary, with extraordinary energy needs; at a resting state it requires nearly 20 percent of your daily calories. Our brains are chock full of dozens of cognitive biases. Negatively impacting people and culture? The business results remained strong, and the culture strengthened.
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Shaping an eLearning Solution
Zephyr Learning
JUNE 25, 2013
To create this desire to learn we need to understand the foundations of cognitive learning processes and constructivist methods and how to implement brain stimulation to maintain knowledge development momentum. Any type of learning must engage for it to succeed. This statement is very important when creating elearning solutions.
A 3-Level Approach to Creating Stronger eLearning Courses
SHIFT eLearning
AUGUST 12, 2014
The best way to achieve an emotional design in eLearning is by paying attention to the three cognitive levels, first defined by Donald Norman visceral, behavioral, and reflective. This best way to understand how to apply emotional design is to look at the three cognitive levels in turn. This is called emotional design. To Conclude.
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3 Myths That Prevent You from Learning
KnowledgeOne
AUGUST 29, 2019
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. 2006; Howard-Jones, 2010a).
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The Performance Improvement Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2016
This is much more than taking advantage of the various inbuilt cognitive biases with which behavioural economists are so obsessed. Companies that Spicer and Alvesson studied, hired smart people but then these people, because of company culture, were discouraged from using their brains. It is often intentionally created.
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The Science of Connection
CLO Magazine
SEPTEMBER 5, 2018
Now, new technology enables “hard” science to provide more evidence into how our brains work. Recent studies of human brain imaging strongly suggest that our brains are wired to be social. Because the brain is wired to be social, it seeks social cues — the real-time behaviors that display connection. How do you do that?
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Friday Finds — AI Revolution, Prompt Engineering, Reducing Info Overload
Mike Taylor
MAY 5, 2023
To fully realize this potential, educators and teachers need to be properly trained and supported in the use of AI technology Learn more → MARGE: A Whole Brain Approach for Students and Teachers Check out this free eBook on Arthur Shimamura’s MARGE Model which stands for Motivation, Attention, Retention, Generalization, and Evaluation.
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What Your eLearning Provider Wants You To Know About Gamification
Roundtable Learning
APRIL 26, 2024
Recent studies have shown that applying gamification in education can improve cognitive, motivational, and behavioral learning outcomes. Gamification activates the brain during the learning process by giving learners the freedom to make choices, fail, and perform better in the next round! It’s a tried and true engagement strategy.
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