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Cognitive Bias: When Our Brain Plays Tricks On Us

KnowledgeOne

We are all quite familiar with the phenomenon of optical illusions, but less so with the phenomenon of cognitive biases. The underside of cognitive bias. Some 250 cognitive biases are generally classified into one of the following five categories: Bias… our perception is affected by… attentive or of attention.

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Cognitive Reality

E-Learning Provocateur

For me, 2016 has been the year in which the Virtual Reality rubber finally met the road, while Augmented Reality made a surprise splash into the mainstream via those pesky Pikachu. Yet another year has come and gone at the speed of light! As a consequence, VR & AR dominated much of my blogging attention this year.

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2016 Reflections

Clark Quinn

This is the last Learnlet for 2016, and so it’s time for some reflections on what has been an ‘interesting’ year. So, I did a fair bit of speaking in 2016, keynoting conferences in New York and Beijing, as well as more private events live and online. The post 2016 Reflections appeared first on Learnlets.

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The Fascinating Memory: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

This is the surprising finding of an American study published in 2016. What the 2016 study highlighted was the fact that information is better stored if, when we take in the information to be memorized, we inhale through the nose. Select the correct term to complete each statement about stress and memory in this excerpt.

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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

KnowledgeOne

” In active engagement, the learner is an actor in their learning and mobilizes as many of their cognitive skills as possible. Action, trial and error and emotions therefore play important roles in learning,” explains cognitive development and learning specialist Olivier Houdé in his book L’école du cerveau.

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Using Neuroscience to Advance Education

KnowledgeOne

Since the impressive technological advances in brain imaging in the 1990s, neuroscience has enabled cognitive science to take a giant step forward. This is the bet taken by Olivier Houdé, a specialist in cognitive development and learning, in his book L’ école du cerveau : De Montessori, Freinet et Piaget aux sciences cognitives.

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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills

Experiencing eLearning

Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. Originally published 7/29/2016. What about people who only do development but no design; are they instructional designers? How much project management falls under the role of instructional designer? What about you?