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Top 4 soft skills employees are developing in VR

STRIVR

Enterprise leaders today are faced with a unique and growing challenge around building soft skills in their organizations. . Around the globe, corporate learning experts are pushing the need for soft skills training. We need to take these ‘power skills’ seriously, and build experiential programs that start at the top.”

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Earth Day: develop your green skills in 2023

Coorpacademy

This is partly because the scientific means to measure the effects of human activity on the climate were not developed until late. The Green Web Foundation, founded in 2006 and based in the Netherlands and Germany, is working towards a day when the internet is powered entirely by renewable energy. Questions 1. Did you know?

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A List of Brain-based Strategies to Create Effective eLearning

SHIFT eLearning

There is a simple way to design effective eLearning courses about any subject: brain-based learning. This instructional approach was defined by Hileman in 2006 and has since inspired many “brain compatible designers” — those who seek to understand the principle and reasoning behind their teaching. D: Develop Thinking Skills.

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Cognitive Bias in Education: the Pygmalion Effect

KnowledgeOne

While the teaching profession encourages the development of critical thinking skills, the learner-teacher relationship is nevertheless conducive to the development of some of these biases, and they can have a significant impact on learning. The Pygmalion effect is one of them, and the first step in preventing it is to know more about it.

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Strive to develop Automaticity in your learners

Kapp Notes

Automaticity can be defined as “the status of any knowledge or skill that has been used so many times that it can be activated from long-term memory and applied using minimal working memory resources.” Clark, Nguyen & Sweller, 2006). Skills become automatic after repeated rehearsals of the activity. Source: (Clark,R.,

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Harnessing the power of AI to provide personalized feedback at scale

Learning Pool

When Benjamin Bloom conducted his ‘2 Sigma’ study in 1984, he evidenced what many had suspected; people learn much more effectively in a personalized environment, such as one-to-one tutoring with an expert than in the classroom or in a group setting. What is Converse?

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Weekly Bookmarks (9/19/2010)

Experiencing eLearning

Spaced education improves the retention of clinical knowledge by medical students: a randomised controlled trial – Kerfoot – 2006 – Medical Education – Wiley Online Library Annotated. Research summary on a specific model for spaced learning which the author found effective for improving recall.

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