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The Planet Captivate Blog – Cognitive Load

Adobe Captivate

However, one topic that Jim has helped me to better understand is that of cognitive load. There has been a great deal of research done on the topic, but in a nutshell, it refers to the amount of information the human brain can effectively process at one time. EXAMPLE: Reading an article in the newspaper. So let’s get started.

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Friday Finds — Cognitive Overload, Spacing Retrieval,

Mike Taylor

Wynter is looking for L&D pros Here is a different, but interesting opportunity for L&D professionals: Wynter is looking for L&Ders that want to participate in a research study and get paid for their effort. Check the link here and join the research! What to do when cognitive overload threatens your productivity.

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7 Practical Guidelines From Cognitive Science for eLearning

eLearning Brothers

When I’ve attended eLearning conferences and workshops, one thing I’ve noticed is that instructional designers are always hungry for more research and knowledge on how people learn and what they can do to help them learn better. Unfortunately, much of that wisdom is locked in scholarly journal articles and dense—dare I say boring?—books,

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Cognitive biases: test your knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Do you know what a cognitive bias is and how many there are to date? Are you aware that certain cognitive biases must be taken seriously in the teaching world? Can you tell a cognitive bias from a myth? Cognitive biases are perceptual distortions that can be said to be to our mind what optical illusions are to our visual system.

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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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Growth Mindset, AI, and More: ID Links 3/14/23

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on growth mindset, an AI tool for instructional design, branching scenarios, accessibility, and a magazine issue with elearning articles by multiple prominent authors. Growth mindset Ask the Cognitive Scientist: Does Developing a Growth Mindset Help Students Learn? The Twine® Grimoire, Vol.

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Demystifying Cognitive Load Theory

ID Mentors

Cognitive load theory is credited to the work and research of John Sweller in the 1980s. In this article, I try and decode it to help Instructional Designers understand the concept and apply it when they design learning material. Hopefully, this will reduce Cognitive Load! Hopefully, this will reduce Cognitive Load!