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The 3 Components of Metacognition

KnowledgeOne

Metacognition can be summarized as the ability to reflect on one’s cognitive processes, allowing us to identify our mistakes and successes, understand their origin, and adjust our goals. The main definition of this notion attributes the following three components to it: Metacognition includes: Metacognitive knowledge.

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The Learning and Forgetting Curve: How to Make eLearning Memorable

TalentLMS

Multitasking with techno-stimulators: mobile phones, tablets, i-tunes and you get the drift. Another common and deceptively heroic habit, that we all are so proud of, is multitasking. But I thought multitasking got things done faster! Prevent cognitive overload by presenting information in “chunks”. Tell us something new.

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A Voice for Learning? Exploring the Pros and Cons of Having Audio Narration in eLearning

IT Training Department Blog

There are definitely pros and cons of having an eLearning voice over vs just letting people read it themselves. This is the same reason multitasking doesn’t work. The science is definitely on the side of pro narration, but the darn real world tends to get in the way. But is that a good thing?

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | April 29, 2022

Mike Taylor

We definitely don’t live here for the weather. The History of Cognitive Load. Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. I’d really like to spend more time outside not getting rained on and freezing. Thanks for reading. What I’m Listening to: I’ve been giving Code Radio a test drive this week.

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The Big 7: Create Online Courses Based On These Principles of Learning

SHIFT eLearning

The latter is definitely superior to crammed learning because the brain needs ample time to take in and fully understand new facts before it can accept the next group of information. Well, cognitive science disagrees. Be careful; training professinoals are often tempted to oversimplify when employing this method. Spaced Learning.

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Deciphering Attention

KnowledgeOne

Yet attention is essential to our cognitive effectiveness, whether we are learning new things or simply performing many of our daily tasks. Is there an agreed definition of attention? Attention will eventually become a leading concept in gestalt psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive linguistics. Picton and al.

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Text-to-Speech Basics: What Is TTS and Who Uses It?

CourseArc

Here’s your definitive introduction to TTS technology, starting with a fundamental question: What is TTS? Multitaskers The shortcuts TTS can provide are endless—from reading recipes while you cook to dictating instruction manuals when assembling furniture. In other words, what does TTS mean? Dharmesh Shah Keynote at INBOUND 2016 3.