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#TwistedTropes 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy

Learning with e's

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Everything was awkward about the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow. As a young man, Maslow had very few friends, so he made books his companions, married one of his cousins by accident, and then spent the rest of his life trying to discover the meaning of life. This was awkward.

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Maslow, Confucius and 3 keys to operate in Dragon land!

Origin Learning

Can Abraham Maslow have made a mistake? Also, with global connectivity, the pace of advancements in technology dictates the way one learns, understands, and executes in a business context. The way the world is advancing is responsible for making people re-think, reconsider, and “unlearn” embedded ideas.

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Games, Organizing, & Motivation: ID Links 10/25/22

Experiencing eLearning

These aren’t learning or training games, but it’s useful to look at games outside of L&D for ideas on game mechanics, look and feel, choice writing, and other elements of games. Here is the 5 steps DnD story framework I use to design stories for my e-learning modules : 1. Top games made with Twine – itch.io.

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Going the extra mile

Learning with e's

This is number 26 in my series on learning theories. In this post, I''m revisiting a well known and heavily used motivational theory - Maslow''s Hierarchy of Human Needs. As usual, this is a simplified interpretation of the theory, so if you wish to learn more, please read the associated literature.

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Can learning theories lead to better elearning content? 

Creativ Technologies

The learning theories can take your e-learning content in a new direction because they can improve its comprehension. So, many learning theories can ensure that learners take a lot of interest in the content. Learning theories are needed because employees like to grasp information differently. Behaviorism.

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The importance of continuous learning in elearning content

Plume - e-learning & learning management systems

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.” ? What is continuous learning? Continuous learning is the inherent need to constantly expand one’s knowledge – to grow and develop our skills – whether it be interpersonal, work-related or otherwise. Maslow, A.

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The Biggest Myths in Learning and Development

Absorb LMS

In the early 1960s, philosopher Abraham Kaplan and psychologist Abraham Maslow independently described the idea that being in possession of an instrument affects our perception. So what does all this have to do with learning and development? Having worked in the area of learning technology for so long has created certain assumptions.

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