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MANAGING INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Learnnovators

The common wisdom amongst instructional designers is to avoid creating an information overload. You can appreciate where it’s coming from, but you really can’t blindly follow it and indiscriminately simplify everything under the sun. You decide based on the nature of the information and the purpose of why you’re reading it.

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Booming tech sends L&D back to basics

CLO Magazine

For learning professionals to bloom through the boom, reexamining our root system and turning to the sun are needed. Turn to the sun Light illuminates what works and dispels what does not. When learning professionals “follow the sun,” we align to a north star and establish a litmus test for how and where we spend our efforts.

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How to Navigate Social Media (and Avoid Information Overload)

Rapid eLearning

As a wise man one said, “There’s nothing new under the sun.” Social media technology opens the door to a lot of helpful information and helps you build a network of like-minded peers. OK, this kind of goes contrary to the whole social media thing, but who cares. Don’t worry about being on top of all of the chatter.

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How to Create Context-Setting Learning Objectives - Tip #162

Vignettes Learning

Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. It needs time to digest. Story Impacts Learning and Performance: Monogatari Press.

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Letting Go of the Need to Know Everything: Use Context Setting Learning Objectives

Vignettes Learning

Daniel Levitin, PhD , author of the bestselling book This is Your Brain On Music, we process 34 gigabytes of information during our leisure time alone and we would have created a world with 300 exabytes of human made information. Every hour, YouTube uploads 6,000 hours of video content. It's just impossible to keep up.