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Should seductive details be used in elearning content? Yay or Nay? 

Creativ Technologies

Such individuals don’t look much at such elements, as shown in an experiment by Sanchez and Wiley where eye-tracking was done. The use of seductive details in reducing the recall also varies with the cognitive load level of the eLearning content. These are goals the learners are supposed to learn from the eLearning content.

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Why Corporate Training is Broken And How to Fix It

Jay Cross

Forward-looking companies established corporate universities and tried to become Learning Organizations. eLearning was born. Venture capitalists funded scores of eLearning companies, most of which disappeared in the dot-com crash a few years later. In the late 1990s, the web changed everything. Time is speeding up.