LearnDash

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Instructional designers, the profession dedicated to creating effective live and online training, has known this for quite some time. Over the years there have been countless development models and general design tips to help maximize the effectiveness of training content. elearning instructional design'

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eLearningMind

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It’s the classic storyline pattern from all of your favorite childhood fairytales: Hero is introduced; hero encounters trials; hero rises triumphant. Professor of Literature and mythologist Joseph Campbell was the first to formally identify the archetypal protagonist’s pattern in his 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.

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CourseArc

JUNE 21, 2017

As the methods for seamlessly including rich media assets in eLearning continue to improve, instructional designers are finding creative uses of audio and video to supplement their text-based courses. How Audio Enhances Instructional Design. Audio is a powerful way to convey information and subtext at the same time. (For

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The Learning Dispatch

MAY 4, 2018

He’ll introduce using pattern libraries for accessible elearning development, explaining how they can make your development process more efficient. . At WGBH, for example, Rothberg’s team became part of the design effort, so that the team could make sure features like audio description were considered when the content was being created.

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Association eLearning

JUNE 2, 2016

That probably made your brain hurt. On the web, readers tend to skim text in an F-shaped pattern, rather than reading word-for-word. Graphics attract attention, so use them carefully. You can also use them to direct the learner’s attention by pointing out important onscreen elements.

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Matrix

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Not so long ago people believed that we only use around 10% of our brain capacity and that once a neuron dies, the brain loses it forever. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs. And neuroscience placed the 10% usage of the brain right next to the other erroneous beliefs.

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Growth Engineering

APRIL 19, 2016

Any instructional designer will have a good idea of the theory behind how people learn, but a gamified solution needs to also consider how gamers learn. Gamers look for patterns. Gamers are used to observing a system as a whole and in most cases, pattern-recognition is essential to beating the game.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 30, 2022

Most of us wouldn’t choose a job in a busy restaurant as a way to relax our brains, but it works for Sheldon. He has his “eureka moment” after dropping some dishes and noticing the pattern of the broken pieces on the floor. Our brains normally look for patterns to help make sense of the world. Play Music.

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KMI Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

Other custom eLearning content development companies have their ADDIE’s and their SAM’s. (In In case you weren’t familiar with the acronyms they are both instructional design models. ADDIE stands for Analyze, Design, Development, Implement and Evaluate, and SAM is short for Successive Approximation Model.)

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Matrix

JUNE 18, 2020

Moreover, 50% of the cortex (the largest area of the brain where information is processed), is in fact devoted to visual processing and our brains are better at processing visual information. As we design your content, we could use the Slide Sorter view to see the presentation from the top. Final remarks.

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The Learning Dispatch

JULY 7, 2013

When a mobile game has over a million downloads in the week it launches, it deserves attention. Estimated reading time: 3 minutes For the uninitiated, Dots is a pattern recognition game. To a certain degree, I think the game is appealing because it allows people to do what the human brain does very well – recognize patterns.

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KnowledgeOne

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

This is the subject of one of the chapters in “Emotions, Learning, and the Brain: Exploring the Educational Implications of Affective Neuroscience” by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, Associate Professor of Education, Psychology and Neuroscience. But in a way, the same can be said of our brains.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 3, 2017

Action: Good game designers know that games are engaging because they require action right away. Instruction needs to be the same. Too often instructional design is about the content and not about the actions that need to occur. Uncertainty adds suspense, intrigue, and focuses the learner’s attention on the task at hand.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 1, 2013

Amazon gives this glowing review for Cron’s book: "Imagine knowing what the brain craves from every tale it encounters, what fuels the success of any great story, and what keeps readers transfixed. Here are the outstanding points I got from the podcast: The story is the language of the brain.

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Matrix

JANUARY 31, 2017

There are plenty of aspects of the human brain and how we remember things that even the most brilliant minds of scientists on this planet still don’t know. Since I haven’t had to pass a geometry, chemistry, or geography test in years, my brain placed these pieces of information in a not-that-important category.

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Learnnovators

APRIL 5, 2021

Today, she teaches instructional designers, trainers, speakers, and leaders how to design and deliver training that is compelling, memorable and immediately useful by applying the latest discoveries from the converging fields of cognitive science and artificial intelligence. The human brain isn’t built for our world.

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Vignettes Learning

APRIL 29, 2017

We may have only several seconds to captivate their attention. Shocking statistics and interactive, well-designed and understandable data visualization are some of the effective approaches. Warning: brain overload. 7 excellent ways to start a presentation and capture your audience’s attention. How can we simplify data?

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LifterLMS

OCTOBER 22, 2023

your patterns manifest themselves across the things that you do. A doer who is a planner who has an operational brain if you don’t How to Scale a Solopreneur Education Business with Sarah Duran: have Chris Badgett: one. So I actually have a background in current, I have a master’s in curriculum and instruction.

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Limestone Learning

JULY 16, 2019

To retain information in long-term memory, our working memory requires things like chunking content logically (information-mapping techniques are very useful for chunking and sequencing), priming (reactivating old knowledge before we learn new knowledge), connecting patterns and contextualized retrieval (e.g., scenarios, stories etc.—using

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Learning Visions

MAY 21, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Rather than segregating learners by different styles where they will receive "one-dimensional instruction", we should instead create "multidimensional instruction" using a variety of activities and presentation modes.

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eLearningMind

JULY 15, 2016

They represent the moment-to-moment activity of players, and core mechanics are deployed to create specific patterns of repeated behavior. So the best way to find out what method is best for your business is to ask an instructional designer to complete an analysis of your training and the audience consuming it.

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eLearningMind

JULY 15, 2016

They represent the moment-to-moment activity of players, and core mechanics are deployed to create specific patterns of repeated behavior. So the best way to find out what method is best for your business is to ask an instructional designer to complete an analysis of your training and the audience consuming it.

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Matrix

APRIL 11, 2017

But they did carry out a study on human attention span and the results showed that alongside everything else we are as focused as a goldfish. The research was done on 2,000 participants in Canada and studied the brain activity of 112 others using electroencephalograms. How’s that for your short attention span? Well, almost.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Here is a collection of the best learning science and instructional design-related posts from 2018. In this TedxNashville talk on the science of learning, Ulrich Boser ( @ulrichboser ) shares some insights about learning how to learn and the three skills of the “new smart”: metacognition, patterns, and struggle.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

Cammy Beans Learning Visions Musings on eLearning, instructional design and other training stuff. Go to a mall and spend 30 minutes observing shopping patterns, merchandising schemes, etc. As I think about my own blog-reading habits, I see the same patterns. Do you notice similar patterns in your blogging?

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eLearningMind

JANUARY 26, 2017

Whether the message was genealogical in nature or just “Stay away from sharp teeth”, stories have had a way of capturing attention and relaying information that really sticks. Understanding that the human brain is hardwired to listen to and interpret stories is part of our secret sauce.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 24, 2023

The light stimulates specialized cells in the back of the brain (rods and cones) to emit a chemical called activated rhodopsin. This chemical produces electrical signals that are sent, one pixel at a time, to the brain. This decoding of attention eventually may help us make training or reference materials more compelling and efficient.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 8, 2009

The Various Roles of Instructional Design (work in progress) - Jonathan’s ID , June 5, 2009. Informal learning patterns - Informal Learning , June 26, 2009. Discovering Instructional Design 12: the ICARE Model - The E-Learning Curve , June 11, 2009. Brain rules - where does that leave us?

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TalentLMS

MAY 14, 2021

It’s easier for human brains to remember something they saw or heard than it is to remember something they read. The results won’t be good enough — and it can distract your learners from paying attention to what’s actually being said. It’s easy to fall into the pattern of written speech when you have a script.

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CLO Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2012

By combining the power of the human brain with technology in a way that facilitates work, collaboration and communication, leaders can turn learning into multifaceted performance support. Human brains are good at pattern matching and extracting meaning, and bad at rote performance and keeping complex intermediate steps in mind.

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Association eLearning

MARCH 29, 2017

And there are lots of articles floating around that discuss how much faster the human brain can supposedly process images than it can process words. And something that looks good is going to get more attention than something that looks sloppy or complicated. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words. Why People Like Visuals.

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Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The Brain Science Behind Nudges Nudge learning works because it leverages multiple things we know about how the brain learns: • Learner Choice — Malcolm Knowles first defined the adult learner’s need for self-direction. Repeated rewards build behavior patterns and make it more likely that we’ll do that same thing again.

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LifterLMS

DECEMBER 25, 2018

Learn how to build high impact courses that get lasting results with instructional designer Julie Dirksen in this LMScast episode with Chris Badgett of LifterLMS. Julie is the author of the book Design For How People Learn. Julie shares how the brain is like a closet when it comes to organization. Julie Dirksen: Yeah-.

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Growth Engineering

MAY 31, 2016

Watch this interview to find out: How gamification helps the brain learn. Could you tell us a little bit about how gamification helps the brain learn? The way our brain makes sense of information is that we need stimulus in our brain to make connections, and the connections are what make us remember information.

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Vignettes Learning

JANUARY 16, 2013

Synthesis: The Thought/Action Wave and the Brain/Technology Wave are two particular learning principles that enable faster, cheaper and easier learning. Click here for larger view Strong Waves There are two strong waves that I pay attention to: the Thought/Action Wave and the Brain/Technology Wave.

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SHIFT eLearning

JUNE 5, 2014

A lot of research actually goes into a well-designed eLearning material. And like it or not, instructional designers have to dig deep into the psychology of learners, specifically how they learn and what affects their learning. Pay attention to these factors if you want to explore more about the subject. Practice Effect.

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Marcia Conner

JANUARY 3, 2012

It often helps if I, as a communicator, begin by first calling attention to what may be silent bias. HUMBURG: I believe the Internet is the first technology—and I do mean the first—that by its very nature is capable of engaging our brains at the level where we can actually learn, grow, change, and keep on going in real time and on-demand.

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