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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations

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Wednesday, May 09, 2007 Cognitive Flexibility Theory & Multiple Representations After reading Clarks comment on my posting from yesterday , Ive been looking into Cognitive Flexibility Theory (Spiro), trying to better understand the notion of "multiple representations." (You Makes sense. 10:03 AM Cammy Bean said. Getting an Informal M.Ed

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Another take on Cognitive Load Theory

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Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Another take on Cognitive Load Theory The authors of the Eide Neurolearning Blog weigh in on recent research and articles on cognitive load (including the death of Powerpoint that have been talked about here ). Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff.

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Falling in Love all Over Again with ISD – with Allison Rossett at #ASTD2011

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From the war, these trainer types went into industry – telecom (ATT) Walter Dick – “ISD is applied educational psychology” Instructional design is all abut theory. Motivation Theory – John Keller, ARCS (Attention, Relevance, Confidence, Satisfaction) “Adult Learning Theory” – she doesn’t believe in it. Provide some structure.

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Design for How People Learn by Julie Dirksen @usablelearning

Learning Visions

She explains theory in easy-to-understand terms, provides lots of examples and real world situations to help you see how you can apply the principles she's talking about to your elearning programs. I'm buying this for my design team and will recommend this to clients as an essential book for their learning design libraries.

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Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullet Points

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If you’ve ready any of Ruth Clark’s or Richard Mayer’s books you’ll find yourself in familiar territory: “…writing out the text of your presentation on your slides and then reading it to your audience contradicts the widely accepted theory of dual channels. and then “how do I do this.”

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Play to Learn! (Book Tour Stop)

Learning Visions

Great balance of theory with a focus on practical how-tos Informative and practical -- with roadmaps to help you with defining game goals and instructional goals, learner personas, learning objectives; creating prototypes; play-testing; development considerations; deployment and more. Don't make it so hard that people lose heart.

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Getting a job as an Instructional Designer

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You have to provide some proof of your capabilities and at the very least be able to point to a really kick ass portfolio of design treatments or even courses you’ve built (or collaborated on with someone else). that provides some good discussion and practical tips. That’s right. well just write a design treatment or script.