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Understanding How We Learn: Video vs. Text

fewStones

How Our Brains Process Information Remembering Things Remembering things is making mental notes in your brain. When you learn something, your brain takes snapshots using your senses, such as seeing, hearing, or feeling. How Watching Videos Affects Our Brain Watching videos is a way we work out our brains.

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ASTD TechKnowledge Wrap Up in Pictures #ASTDTK12

Learning Visions

I know my brain was full but invigorated! Here are some other highlights of the conference, in pictures: Talking authoring tools and HTML5 at TK Chat with Dave Anderson of Articulate, Patrick Krekelberg of Allen Interactions, Thomas Toth and Judy Unrein. Perhaps a picture of the way things will be? Stuart Crabb of Facebook.

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How to make brain-friendly learning that sticks (Expert interview)

Elucidat

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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The Neuroscience of Instagram

eLearningMind

But as it turns out, Instagram’s surge and unprecedented success in a sea of failed social media networks (we’re looking at you, Google+) may be more linked to the way the brain works than those #nofilter pictures shared. The rapid pace of a visually stimulating medium such as Instagram multiplies the effect of reward in the brain.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Power of Data Visualization – Why Looks Matter for HR Data

Inquisiq

The human brain is wired to process information visually, making visualization one of the best ways to understand data, particularly when presenting to business leaders and other stakeholders in your company. I could go on with examples here but I’m sure you get the picture. You’re all left brain and no right.

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Points of inflection

Clark Quinn

Back to my old mantra: “the human brain is arguably the most complex thing in the known universe”! When I look at learning design, innovation facilitation, and culture change I see a complex picture. That, of course, was what the book was about, but that’s not enough.

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