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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

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Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information. Miller first coined the term ‘chunking’ in his 1956 paper, The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on our Capacity for Processing Information.

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Keeping the Learning Going

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Recently, I was talking to some friends of mine who work in learning and development and they were telling me that it’s coming up to that time of the year when everyone needs to retake their mandatory eLearning courses on privacy and bullying & harassment. They were saying that during the year there’s not too […].

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Enhance Digital Learning Experiences with Video

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Pretty much any interest you have can be ‘googled’ and located not only for entertainment purposes but also for learning. Want to learn how to build a deck? Want to learn how to cross-stitch? Want to learn how to use photoshop? There’s a vid for that. There’s a vid for that. How about how to take a better picture?

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Designing Scenario Based Learning with Articulate Storyline

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Studies have shown that the amount of information and practical knowledge retained by adult learners, [.]. Articulate eLearning Design eLearning Development eLearning Strategy authoring tools elearning eLearning content eLearning course design eLearning strategy instructional design Master elearning Course online learning storyline'

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Learning and Cognitive Load

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In summary, to assist learners in transferring information from their working memory to their long-term memory, we need to present the information in such a way that it reduces extraneous cognitive load (non-relevant items) and, if possible, increases germane cognitive load (items […].

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Blended Learning: What’s all the fuss about?

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There has been a bit of hype at the beginning of this year about blended learning and it seems to be a topic at this year’s Learning Technologies 2015 conference in the UK. I’ve always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the term ‘blended learning’. The traditional idea of a blended learning environment […].

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Practice and Sharing: The Keys to Success

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These were the two messages that stood out over three days in Sydney at the iDesignX Australian Instructional Design Conference (21st March) sponsored by B Online Learning and Articulate and the eLearning Design Workshops with Tom Kuhlmann and David Anderson (22nd and 23rd March).