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Spaced Retrieval, Retrieval Practice, and Knowledge Guru: What Research Tells Us

Knowledge Guru

Spaced Retrieval avoids two inherent problems with mass practice (learning all the information at once); the problems of learner fatigue and the likelihood of interference with preceding and succeeding learning. It’s a significant problem.” 2005) Application of the testing and spacing effects to name learning.

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User Assistance: Standard Gauge

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

And the same pattern continued until there was no standard left. There were no plans for railway lines to cross borders, so as long as all lines within a colony used the same gauge, there would be no problem. You may be awestruck by these decisions, but in context, having a standard made little difference.

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The Neuroscience of Self-directed Learning

CLO Magazine

Fortunately, starting about 2005, the emerging neuroscience of learning suggested a way to solve this problem. Neuroscience showed the basic building block of all learning is the rewiring of neurons into new patterns. Once rewired, these patterns are the new unconscious competence. What causes neurons to rewire?

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The Role of Technology in the Workplace

Kitaboo

Dependency: Depending heavily on computer systems can become a problem if there is a technical glitch. In the United States, the number of workers telecommuting has grown by 115% since 2005. But if you need to upgrade your system very often, it can be time-consuming as well as expensive.

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Keynote Resources from #LUC2017

Kapp Notes

Challenge : As the game-based learning expert James Paul Gee has said, good games give players a set of challenging problems and let them solve those problems until they can do it automatically. Then those same games throw a new class of problem at the players requiring them to re-think, their now—taken for granted—mastery.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - March 6, 2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

March 6, 2005. Anti-patterns, avoiding pitfalls. Anti-patterns alert you to traps, unforgiving situations, bad places and practices that just do not work! It is postulated that one of the main problems with e-learning environments is their lack of personalisation. The Time Is Now.

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The Role of Technology in the Workplace

Kitaboo

Dependency: Depending heavily on computer systems can become a problem if there is a technical glitch. In the United States, the number of workers telecommuting has grown by 115% since 2005. But if you need to upgrade your system very often, it can be time consuming as well as expensive.

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