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A challenge to the multitask assumption

Clive on Learning

A few weeks ago I wrote on the Onlignment blog about The multitask assumption. By this I meant the assumption you can safely make with any webinar that a good proportion of the audience is multitasking - you know, checking emails, answering the phone, listening to music, finishing off a report, and so on.

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19 Tips for Effective Online Conferences

Tony Karrer

Encourage it and make sure the moderator and/or presenter weave it into the session – see Presentation Backchannel Multitasking. Pictures of speakers make the event more real. Have pictures on session descriptions and on the first slide of each speaker. Text Chat works great during sessions as a Back Channel.

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Top 4 Digital Publishing Trends You Need to Know

Kitaboo

Ebooks are one of the most popular forms of material circling the web. If you take a moment to picture a scene from a crowded train, then can you tell me how many people will bring their tablet or iPad out and start reading? However, print is still on top of its game. However, consumers won’t always the same device to read an eBook.

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Interactive and engaging webinars- between who and who?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The webinar started with the observation that webinar participants are prone to start multitasking: check mails, water the plants etc. Use pictures and images Tell a story instead of a lot of facts and figures Challenge participants: what did you hear? But when I typed this question I got an immediate reply! So it was not a tape.

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Telepresence: upping the stakes in synchronous online communication

Clive on Learning

Of course we could use a web conferencing system, with a virtual whiteboard, document sharing and all those nice things, but I have no experience of sustaining this sort of event for more than an hour or so. That's what I'm trying to figure out. Telepresence is not for everyone.

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What is Microlearning? Examples, Strategy, and More

eLearningMind

Still, humans can multitask fairly well because most interactions are quick, from a cursory glance at a few social media updates to hitting a “like” button. By translating data, product information, and even workflows into graphics, learners get the picture quickly. Multitasking. That’s one full second less than a goldfish.

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What is Microlearning? Examples, Strategy, and More

eLearningMind

That’s one full second less than a goldfish. Still, humans can multitask fairly well because most interactions are quick, from a cursory glance at a few social media updates to hitting a “like” button. By translating data, product information, and even workflows into graphics, learners get the picture quickly. . Multitasking.