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Cognitive Reality

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20 real-world examples of Virtual Reality. I hope you found something useful among my musings, and I invite you to catch up on any that you may have missed… Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Paper cuts. Educate everyone. The future of entertainment. 3 uses of Virtual Reality in workplace education. Pokémon whoa! Other stuff.

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Space invaders

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And this makes sense to me, as the cognitive load is reduced in each session, and I presume the time intervals accommodate further cognitive processing that embeds the concepts deeper into long-term memory. Note that my example of the spacing effect above didn’t involve the repetition of content; but it may well have.

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Transformers

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Look no further than the Higher Education sector for a prime example. So-called “bite sized” pieces of content have the dual benefit of not only being easier to process from a cognitive load perspective, but also more responsive to the busy working week. To begin, I suggest we go micro.

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Taxonomy of Learning Theories

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For example, classical conditioning maintains that a neutral stimulus can be associated with another stimulus that elicits a particular response. It’s important to note that Social Learning Theory now extends beyond the behaviourist domain to encompass cognition, particularly through the work of Julian Rotter and Albert Bandura. .

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A framework for content curation

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. * Truisms such as this one are typically met with suspicion from certain quarters of the L&D community, but in this case the research on the comparative efficacies of lectures, worked examples, PBL etc appears to add up. I recommend covering only one key concept (or a few at most) to reduce cognitive load.

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Theory-informed design tips

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For example, rolling the mouse over Italy on a map can display “Rome&# , while rolling the mouse over Spain can display “Madrid&#. In other words, assist the learner to link the new knowledge to the relevant point in their existing cognitive structure, and to construct high-level cognitive branches within which to fill the detail.

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The power of pictures

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For example, how would you explain the GFC to your colleagues? For example, back in 1996, Richard Mayer and several of his colleagues from the University of California, Santa Barbara studied the effects of a multimedia summary (a sequence of annotated illustrations depicting the steps in a process) on learning how lightning is formed. [

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