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Want to Upgrade Your L&D Results? Speak to the Primal Brain

Mike Taylor

While there’s a treasure trove of marketing strategies that could enrich the L&D landscape, one stands out as the linchpin: speaking to the primal brain. (I ” The Missing Link: Speaking to the Primal Brain Enter the Dual Processing Theory , or as I prefer to call it, the art of “speaking to the primal brain.”

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eLearning & Training: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

According to  Joan Middendorf  and  Alan Kalish , Indiana University, "Adult learners can keep tuned in to a lecture for no more than  15 to 20 minutes  at a time." In her article,  Keeping Pace with Today's Quick Brains ,  Kathie F.

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How to Draw Attention in Video Lectures

learnWorlds

Video lectures are one of the most promising teaching materials in online learning. Empirical evidence suggests that adding attentional cues in the instructor behavior guides learners’ visual attention and thus improves their learning performance in video lectures. The Need for Facial Expressions in Video Lectures.

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Your Brain Prefers Interactive Stories: Not Lectures

Vignettes Learning

Why do we snooze when we are lectured at and why do we perk up when we are watching a story unfold? What happens to the brain when it's exposed to an effective interactive story experience? Cause and Effect: The Story in a Nutshell Brains light up and get pumped up when we tell or listen to good stories. Study learner types.

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Adobe Captivate & eLearning: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

According to  Joan Middendorf and Alan Kalish , Indiana University, "Adult learners can keep tuned in to a lecture for no more than 15 to 20 minutes at a time." As the lecture proceeded the attention span became shorter and often fell to three or four minutes towards the end of a standard lecture.

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The Flipped Learning Revolution — Coming to a Brain Near You?

Dashe & Thomson

My colleague Jon Matejcek first covered it back in March in his article “ Online Academy Helps to Keep Lectures Where They Belong: Out of the Classroom.” Essentially, the idea is to upend the traditional teaching model of classroom lecture followed by personal practice at home. Nine months later, those numbers are 2,700 and 90.5

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5 Learning Myths, Debunked

LearnDash

You’re either “right-brained” or “left-brained.”. Many of those who have read the descriptions of being right- or left-brained have come to identify with those descriptions strongly. Telling them that “actually, we all use our whole brains equally” feels like a direct attack on part of their identity.

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