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Your Brain on Change

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Your Brain on Change. The first thing we need to understand about the human brain is that it evolved to keep us safe in a dangerous world, where our ancestors met deadly threats at every turn. For those of us who are responsible for change management, we need to consider how the brain responds to change. by Margie Meacham.

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Work as Improv Theater: Teaching the Right-Brained Learner.

Dashe & Thomson

The era of “left brain” dominance, and the Information Age that it engendered, are giving way to a new world in which “right brain” qualities-inventiveness, empathy, meaning-predominate. I’ve often wondered what all this right-brained thinking means for the learning industry. Learning has become the work. Good content.

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The Google Effect

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I recently heard a term that was new to me, “ The Google Effect.” I googled it. It turns out that there’s been quite a lot of research into the effects of online search on our brains and our apparent decline in the ability to remember things. For example, “The pencil eraser is changing our brains.”

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The Google Effect

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I recently heard a term that was new to me, "The Google Effect." I googled it. It turns out that there’s been quite a lot of research into the effects of online search on our brains and our apparent decline in the ability to remember things. So of course, what did I do?

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Leading Successful Change to Remote Training

Speaker: Dr. Britt Andreatta, PhD, CEO, 7th Mind, Inc.

For employees who are unfamiliar with meeting software such as Zoom and Google Hangouts, the difficulty of teaching “on the go” has become a noticeable hurdle. Meetings that were previously being held in conference rooms have been moved to conference calls and online meetings.

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Your Bayesian Brain – Are you wired for statistics?

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You may have a Bayesian brain. Google Research is studying how to use Bayesian analysis to predict the impact of ads on marketing and sales. So what does all this math have to do with the brain? Introducing Thomas Bayes. In many applications, this approach amounts to generating a model , or approximation of a statement of truth.

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Pick my brain?

Clark Quinn

It’s a continual bane of a consultant’s existence that there are people who want to ‘pick your brain’ It’s really asking for free consulting, and as such, it’s insulting. If you google the phrase, you’ll see how many people have indicated their problems with this! The post Pick my 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.