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Best Practices to Ensure Successful Custom e-Learning Development

Infopro Learning

When collecting details of the target audience, focus on the following elements – Age of trainees/learners: Generally, millennial employees or trainees prefer gaming and simulations in learning, whereas Gen Y and Gen X individuals prefer learning through text-based course content. Accommodate learners with self-paced e-learning.

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Strain the Brain for Better Results

Dashe & Thomson

Instructional Designers often strive to develop training material that is concise and easily digested by the target learners. Learning Style Theory Cognitive Strain CRT elearning instructional design Learning Theory'

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Rapid Instructional Design for Accelerated Learning

Dashe & Thomson

Created in the military during World War II, the Instructional Systems Design (ISD) model has dominated curriculum design for the last 40 years. Its origin in the military explains why it is overly linear, analytical, verbal, left-brained, academic, top-down, and prescriptive. The Four Phases of Learning.)

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Understanding Learning Styles Research

Experiencing eLearning

Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Should we be using learning styles? Using any learning style model makes people too eager to label each other.

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Learning Myths vs Science/ Approaches to Creating Effective Learning

TechSmith Camtasia

How do people really learn? As an instructional designer or learning and development professional, understanding how people learn helps you deliver training that hits the nail on the head. It’s more complicated than learning styles or picking video over written instructions.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Is cognitive ability plastic?

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

Learning Visions

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. From the CFT vantage, multiple representations is not about providing the same information in a different format (the learning styles approach), but rather presenting different perspectives on that information.

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