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eLearning: Attention, Attention!

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

In my article, I referenced a piece by the BBC,  Turning into Digital Goldfish , where the author said "The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of a goldfish."  Believe it or not, research has been done that says the attention span of a goldfish is actually 9 seconds.

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8 Tips To Develop eLearning Courses For Online Learners With Attention Deficit Disorder

eLearning Industry

This article features 8 tips to develop eLearning courses for online learners with attention deficit disorder. Every online learner should have the opportunity to benefit from your eLearning course, regardless of behavioral disorders or developmental difficulties. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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5 Ideas To Getting Online Learners’ Attention

eLearning Industry

Getting learners' attention and holding onto it is a problem that most course creators and educators face. So what can they do to bring learners in and keep them engaged? This article lists down 5 ideas that could work. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Attention is underrated

Upside Learning

Attention is a complex phenomenon. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. Recent pictures of the information processing loop suggest, however, that attention has a bigger purview.

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Gone in 8 Seconds: Overcoming Buyers’ Shrinking Attention Spans

Speaker: Jake Miller, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Allego

Buyers are savvier, buying teams are larger, and new research shows that buyers' attention spans have dropped to just 8 seconds. This means that the old approach of blasting buyers with email-heavy, generic communications no longer works.

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Attention is underrated

Clark Quinn

Attention is a complex phenomena. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. Recent pictures of the information processing loop suggest, however, that attention has a bigger purview.

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Lesson 6. Attention Please! Creating Interactive & Immersive Content

eLearning Industry

Get expert tips on how to grab learners’ attention with interactive content and make effective branching scenarios for your training courses. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Digital Learning Tips and Tricks from Neuroscience

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo

How can you capture and keep learner attention in a world of alerts, pop-ups, and "clickbait?" Tune in to learn: How the brain responds to digital media (and how you can use this response to increase learner attention). Does digital media work differently in the brain than information coming in from "the real world?"

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Are You Still Watching? How to Create Engaging Presentations for Virtual Learning

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director at BrightCarbon

Terrific tools in PowerPoint along with visual assets help you create the kind of dynamic content you need to capture your remote audience’s attention, with functions that allow for interactive sequences and navigation. But trying to create stimulating content with the same tools you’ve always had is hard, right? Thankfully, wrong!

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Give Your Microlearning Strategy a Makeover

Speaker: Margie Meacham

With disruptive technologies changing the nature of work, you’re facing pressure to produce more results with less – less time, smaller staffs, fewer resources and shorter learner attention spans. While microlearning may be a solution, it takes time and resources to rethink instructional design.

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Legendary Presentations: eLearning, Sales Collateral, and Defeating Death-by-PowerPoint

Speaker: Richard Goring, Director, BrightCarbon

By the end of this session, you’ll be ready to: Capture attention and maximize retention in a tiny amount of time. And once that’s finished, we’ll look at how you can take this engaging eLearning content and easily repurpose it to create sales collateral for your teams to use with clients.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

By attending this webinar with Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions, you will: LEARN strategies for motivating learners, even when you’re given “boring” content UNDERSTAND what makes a course "boring" and what you can do to capture learner attention and bring your courses to life DISCOVER techniques that convert a course from dry (..)

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Developing a Results Driven Curriculum

A well-designed learning curriculum develops and nurtures skills needed to achieve organizational and business goals with the most effective and engaging set of experiences. This ebook outlines 5 critical steps to develop learning solutions that will help you achieve the most ambitious objectives.