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Stress and Learning: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

As stress specialist Sonia Lupien explains in one of her articles, our bodies don’t differentiate between “absolute stress,” which actually threatens our lives, and “relative stress.” B) Chronic stress provides high-potential students with enhanced cognitive performance. As an antidote to daily stress, Ms.

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Online training in empathic mode

KnowledgeOne

We will focus in this article on a definition that is meaningful and applicable in a pedagogical context. Empathy consists of two dimensions, one emotional and the other cognitive. Under the magnifying glass of psychology or philosophy, in particular, this seemingly simple notion can become eminently complex.

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LEARNNOVATORS PRESENTS “DEEPER E-LEARNING DESIGN” BLOG SERIES BY CLARK QUINN

Learnnovators

He integrates creativity, cognitive science, and technology to lead development of strategic solutions including award-winning online content, educational computer games, and websites, as well as adaptive, mobile, and performance support systems. The first post of the “Deeper eLearning Design” series by is available HERE. About Clark Quinn.

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Questions of the Week

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

Regarding last week's informative article by Jennie Ruby ( Do You Need Both Screen Captions and Voiceover Narration? ). Cognitive constraints on multimedia learning: When presenting more material results in less understanding.   Mayer & Moreno 2003. Nine ways to reduce cognitive load in multimedia learning.

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The Learner and The Feeling of Self-Efficacy

KnowledgeOne

This article is dedicated to the memory of Albert Bandura. In a previous article , we presented the self-efficacy theory of the psychologist Albert Bandura, a pioneer of the socio-cognitivist movement. In contrast, low expectations tend to have the opposite effect (see Cognitive biases in education: the Pygmalion effect ).

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Learning is an emotional process

CrossKnowledge

We cannot merely consider learner’s cognitive needs as we attempt to improve learning models (Pekrun 2014). In other words, Feeling > Thought > Action (Darling-Hammond 2003). This article is written by Sophie Legrandois, Lawrence Myers & Yannick Cordemy. As we have just seen, positive emotions stimulate motivation.

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What's really ready for prime time in corporate learning?

Litmos

The cognitive benefits of performance support are many. The big picture is providing help in the moment to counter our cognitive gaps. We get more reliable performance when we identify the cognitive tasks to be performed, the gaps that can exist, and design to prevent those occurring. Performance Support.