eLearningMind

JANUARY 28, 2021

At ELM, we know that gamification training, when backed by an understanding of brain science, can be a powerful tool for inspiring learners to challenge themselves. At the heart of gamification is dopamine, which controls the pleasure center of our brains and affects our mood, memory, and thinking process. Cognitive Relief.

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Clive on Learning

AUGUST 27, 2009

A few weeks ago I wrote on the Onlignment blog about The multitask assumption. By this I meant the assumption you can safely make with any webinar that a good proportion of the audience is multitasking - you know, checking emails, answering the phone, listening to music, finishing off a report, and so on.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 14, 2009

Thanks to Stephen Downes for taking the trouble to provide a critique of my review of the fourth chapter of John Medina’s book Brain Rules. I presented these out of context and without any of the supporting evidence found in the book. For two reasons: First of all, memory is not proportional to attention. " Um, no.

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ReadyTech

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Improved attention and awareness help employees perform better by focusing on the present and reducing the negative effects of stress. And the research is quite impressive: Mindfulness leads to better concentration, staying on task and multitasking. Mindfulness leads to improved attention. So what’s behind these benefits?

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Obsidian Learning

MARCH 10, 2016

Focused thinking, just as you’d expect, is when we exert our brainpower and attention to the problem at hand or to learning new content. When thinking diffusively our brains begin to make important connections between the new material or problem and other ideas from our experience. Your creativity and learning will benefit!

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SHIFT eLearning

MAY 6, 2014

The latter is definitely superior to crammed learning because the brain needs ample time to take in and fully understand new facts before it can accept the next group of information. Check out this SlideShare presentation: 7 Characteristics of Positive Feedback in eLearning. Spaced Learning. Overlearning. Think learning is enough?

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KnowledgeOne

MARCH 11, 2020

Already bouncy and sneaky by nature, our attention span is being severely strained in these times of overstraining. Yet attention is essential to our cognitive effectiveness, whether we are learning new things or simply performing many of our daily tasks. Focus on attention! When did the attention phenomenon come to light?

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Want to cut down on distractions and multitasking during your course? One of the inevitable battles online instructors face lies in retaining learner attention. If they’re working from home, they may also have children begging for attention, a partner asking for help, or a side hobby lying out in plain sight. Tell a story.

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KnowledgeOne

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Become a master of your attentional system. “In 2005, Sergent, Baillet and Dehaene revealed the brain mechanisms involved in the attentional blink, a phenomenon — comparable to the blink of an eye — of temporary, unconscious and repetitive interruption of our attention. ” — Are we really good at multitasking?

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Limestone Learning

MAY 1, 2017

But the constraint that we need to pay the most attention to is memory. Getting the attention and, more important, time of employees is going to take more than a reminder email. In this session, you’ll experience a brain-training technique that memory athletes use to win competitions—and no, they’re not party tricks.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 25, 2024

Turn off notifications Whether this is on your phone or on Slack, make sure that you pause your notifications when you’re working on tasks that require your undivided attention. Avoid multitasking Multitasking can reduce quality and efficiency. A small ping can really make you lose focus and mess with your productivity.

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KnowledgeOne

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

We are all familiar with the concepts of short-term and long-term memories, which cognitive psychology has long presented to us as our two major types of temporal memories. Sensory memory is not limited to a single brain region but is interconnected with the other memories, whose proper functioning it contributes to. Hyper-fast sorter.

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eLearningMind

JULY 8, 2021

How Our Brains Like to Learn. The science of learning comes down to knowing how our brains like to learn. Our brains crave repetition and patterns —with a bit of the unexpected thrown in to wake us up to alternatives we haven’t thought about. Our brains also love stories, which are a great conduit for emotional connections.

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eLearningMind

MARCH 23, 2023

Learners may also struggle with understanding complex concepts when presented through technology-based materials rather than face-to-face instruction. With more educational material being available through digital means, it can be overwhelming for a learner’s brain to process everything they need to know for their courses.

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Clive on Learning

APRIL 9, 2009

In case you haven't been following this blog, this series of postings looks at John Medina's book Brain Rules chapter by chapter, looking to see what the implications might be for workplace learning. Rule 4: We don't pay attention to boring things In this chapter, John Medina makes a number of hugely important points.

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Learning Visions

JUNE 18, 2007

Monday, June 18, 2007 Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking From the Eide Neurolearning Blog: Voluntary Control of Attention - Visual and Auditory Multi-Tasking There is a yin and yang effect between visual and auditory attention. Is multimedia the same as multitasking? Otherwise, whats the point of multi-media?

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TalentLMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

From animations and infographics to interactive presentations, there are a broad range of multimedia options to choose from. They barraged our brains with more multimedia elements than we could count. This is all supported by scientific fact: our minds are incapable of multitasking. Multimedia Overload.

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Limestone Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

We have begun to reward speed over quality and multitasking over focus, and the negative effects on both our personal and professional lives are potentially catastrophic. You will learn about your marvelous body-brains and improve memory and comprehension while you develop a love for lifelong learning. Things are different today.

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Limestone Learning

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Our brains ignore what is predictable and boring. This session explores the brain’s needs for novelty, contrast, meaning, and emotion to capture and keep your participants’ attention online. Explore six brain-based guidelines that leverage the interaction and collaboration tools in the virtual classroom.

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Continu

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Because the way the materials are presented is just as important as how the students learn. Everyone’s attention span is different, but it’s been proven you retain more over time if you break your learning up. Since employees are always multitasking on jobs, what’s learned is often soon forgotten. Bite-sized learning.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

JUNE 13, 2010

Neuroscientists have figured out a lot about how the brain works in the time since the fMRI was invented 18 years ago. A developmental molecular biologist named John Medina has summarized many of these finding as they relate to learning in a marvellous book and multimedia site entitled Brain Rules. No two brains are the same.

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Jay Cross

OCTOBER 9, 2010

A year ago, Howard talked with Nick Carr about the importance of paying attention : There’s evidence that, as Howard Rheingold suggests, we can train ourselves to be better multitaskers, to shift our attention even more swiftly and fluidly among contending chores and stimuli. You’re not losing attention, are you?

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