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Effective eLearning Content Development to prevent Cognitive Overload

Thinkdom

Did you know that the human brain can only process about four pieces of information at a time? Cognitive overload is a concept that refers to a situation where our brain is given more information or tasks than it can handle at once. Imagine your brain as a computer with a certain amount of processing power.

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Celebrating Brain Awareness Every Day

Learningtogo

When I started my consulting business more than a decade ago, I was energized by the research papers I was reading from the new discipline of neuroscience and stunned to learn that most teachers and trainers had never even heard the word, let alone started to incorporate these findings into their practice.

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Brain activity in numbers

KnowledgeOne

Our brain is never really at rest. When it is not busy with a specific task, it can daydream or ruminate, depending on our mood, but it never stops being active. This is the mode our brain is in when we are daydreaming, but also when we are ruminating… ( Killingsworth and Gilbert, 2010 ). Deciphering Attention.

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Attention Management: Time Management with a Twist

KnowledgeCity

Rather than trying to catch a continually running clock, research indicates you would be far better off focusing on attention management instead. Attention Management – A New Way for a New Workplace. Consequently, the emphasis is shifting to attention management and for good reason. What is attention management?

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Give Your Microlearning Strategy a Makeover

Speaker: Margie Meacham

The evidence suggests that short, targeted content can maximize learner engagement and increase business results. 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. You’ll learn….

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Conquering Attention Residue

CLO Magazine

Recent research by Sophie Leroy, an assistant professor in the UW Bothell School of Business, reveals that interruptions throughout the day — like meetings or an ever-pinging inbox — may be shattering employees’ ability to focus and ultimately hurting their performance. Attention residue can be bad news for the interrupter as well.

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Friday Find Finds — Return on Attention, RSS, Content Curation 101

Mike Taylor

Improving Return on Attention in the Idea Business. He says,”If you’re in the idea business, you need to focus on the return on attention that you’re delivering to the people you are trying to reach. In short, making mistakes primes your brain for learning.

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