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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HexaLearn

DECEMBER 18, 2024

This pattern boosts the ability to understand the concepts by providing a framework for complicated ideas. These components make the material more approachable by grabbing students’ attention and accommodating a range of learning styles. Learning becomes deeper and better recollected because of comprehensive brain activation.

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Mike Taylor

JUNE 16, 2025

They’ve explored dead ends, discovered patterns, and built mental models—even if those models are initially incorrect. Collect feedback : Pay attention to learner reactions and adjust your approach based on what you discover. It’s about recognizing that the human brain learns through contrast and comparison.

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Mike Taylor

JANUARY 31, 2025

Download for free News & Notes Unlock Learner Brains: The Science of Creating Engaging Training The Rundown: Effective training hinges on understanding human cognitive architecture, particularly how attention and first impressions influence learning. Design plays a pivotal role in capturing and maintaining learner engagement.

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Hurix Digital

MAY 7, 2025

It also engages children in activities that involve mathematical concepts such as patterns, sequences, and geometry. Visual elements within game-based applications sustain student attention and support information processing, contributing to improved memory and abstract concept understanding.

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Infopro Learning

JUNE 12, 2025

It is not a secret that a successful salesperson in the fast-paced business world is the one who can grab and hold a prospect’s attention. Our brains process the storytelling mode of communication much more effectively and with an emotional connection, much more than they do for disseminating data sets.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A revised workflow that works with my brain instead of against it. When a coaching client switched from obsessing over her task count to analyzing her work patterns, she discovered that batching similar tasks in 90-minute blocks doubled her output. The result? Four Essential Mindset Shifts OMG – the phrase theres an app for that.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 19, 2017

There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill. This entailed filling in the black and white illustrations in the book with any colors you wanted.

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Learningtogo

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

While he didn’t have the benefit of today’s brain imaging technology, he just may have been right. Human brains interpret waves that fall between 20 to 20,000 Hz as sound. The vibration, usually carried by the air, enters our ear, eventually stimulates the auditory nerve , which sends a signal to the brain.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Cognitive - Try to gain an understanding into the mental processes like attention span, short & long term memory, and perception bias. Reading Patterns - Pay attention to where you place important learning content within the course. Certain areas of the screen capture the attention of a users better than others.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Let's start with attention. How long is the avg attention span? But there's really not a practical limit to our attention span if we WANT to pay attention. You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. Your brain on Tetris.

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Learningtogo

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Your Brain Is Wired for Music. While Pythagoras didn’t have the benefit of today’s brain imaging technology, he just may have been right. Human brains interpret waves that fall between 20 to 20,000 Hz as sound. The hippocampus maps musical patterns to memories. • The hippocampus maps musical patterns to memories. •

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 22, 2019

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 22, 2019

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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SHIFT eLearning

JULY 1, 2014

Paying attention is a task people take for granted; they rarely stop to think about the complex neurocognitive processes involved. However, it is an important topic for eLearning developers who are often so concerned about the superficial elements of their courses and neglect to learn how the brain works.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 23, 2016

In fact, it may be a coping mechanism invented by the brain to help us explain the world. We know that our brains have evolved to become “ survival machines ,” so how does an illogical belief keep us alive? One theory is that these myths help our brain perform its primary function – to keep us alive.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For most of us, our brains are highly efficient forgetting machines. The simplest way to convince our brains that information is important is to reinforce it through repetition. Again: our brains are designed to forget irrelevant information. We need this, because otherwise we would retain too much unnecessary information.

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Upside Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

One of them is not our decreasing attention span, purportedly now down below that of a goldfish; that’s a robustly debunked myth!) Learning, in our brains, is really the strengthening of neural connections. Our thinking is based upon patterns of activation across the myriad of neurons that constitute our brain.

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

I’m so excited about my new book, The Brain Matters Coloring Book ! There are many practical benefits of teaching children about colors: They learn to recognize patterns and objects in the world around them. Recognizing pattern is a key survival skill and coloring helps develop and fine-tune that skill.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 14, 2017

In fact, it may be a coping mechanism invented by the brain to help us explain the world. We know that our brains have evolved to become “ survival machines ,” so how does an illogical belief keep us alive? One theory is that these myths help our brain perform its primary function – to keep us alive.

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Adobe Captivate

JANUARY 29, 2018

When keeping the Learners Attention , the visual memory is of uttermost importance as 60% of the brain is involved in vision. Your Iconic Brain Receives input from +6.000.000 receptors. As an instructional designer you can speedup and strengthen the uptake of visual information by using: Pre Attentive Attributes.

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Learningtogo

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In fact, it may be a coping mechanism invented by the brain to help us explain the world. We know that our brains have evolved to become “ survival machines ,” so how does an illogical belief keep us alive? One theory is that these myths help our brain perform its primary function – to keep us alive.

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Brain Theory Predictions Pattern 100

Trivantis

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Ever wondered what’s going on in your learners’ brains as they’re working through your online training course? We have a few answers that will help you make your e-Learning course more brain-friendly and effective! Follow these 5 tips to create successful e-Learning—designed especially for the brain: Engage them, and they’ll learn.

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SHIFT eLearning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Even more than other types of education, eLearning must struggle to attract learners'' attention: the Internet is full of distractions, and adult learners are both busier and more free to indulge in distractions. If you truly want to grab their attention, you’re going to need to have answers to this question specially. Problem-solving.

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Learningtogo

JUNE 3, 2016

At least, I used to think that this was a side interest, only tenuously connected to my “day job,” until several different threads converged in my brain and got me thinking: What if the Singularity – meaning the emergence of a true “artificial” intelligence (AI) — has already happened and most of us just haven’t noticed?

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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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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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KnowledgeOne

MAY 24, 2023

Neuroscience has made remarkable advances in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain. As our understanding of how the brain functions expands, so does our ability to apply this knowledge to various fields, particularly education. Here are five teaching strategies backed by neuroscience that can enhance learning experiences.

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SHIFT eLearning

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

1) The human brain prefers to recognize, not recall. 2) The human brain likes chunking by seven. The takeaway from these studies is that you should p ay attention to how much information the learner is accessing at any one time. 3) The human brain likes to organize information. 4) The human brain likes patterns.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 1, 2011

I think such a design takes advantage of our cognitive architecture, falling into a pattern, in unconscionable ways. The signs on the way back announcing tolls didn’t look noticeably different, and so I didn’t pay too much attention. Then, today, I was driving back to O’Hare airport from the aforementioned engagement.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 14, 2013

In order to find out if this is true he visited ‘hot beds’ that develop high performing people, looking for patterns. When you correct your mistakes they will trigger your brain into learning. In your brain neurons will grow when used a lot, building better ‘wiring’ in your brain. What have high performers in common?

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Learningtogo

AUGUST 26, 2021

1763: Mathematician Thomas Bayes develops Bayesian inference, a decision-making technique that becomes adopted for teaching machines (and people) how to make decisions using pattern recognition and predictions based on probability. The more we learn about the brain, the more insights we can apply to enhance our AI models.

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Adobe Captivate

APRIL 10, 2018

Once the learner feels connected , we need to maintain his attention and avoid multitasking. Sensory input remains useless until it is processed by the brain where it becomes perception. It is your brain that sees and hears. As a learning professional it is important to get the full attention of the learner.

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Challenge to Learn

MARCH 23, 2014

Based on the literature list ( see page three), he adds that we need patterns in order to solve problems. Based on patterns, time and additional information the web will start offering you info. Her subtitle is: How the brain science of attention will transform the way we live, work and learn.

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Learningtogo

JUNE 2, 2017

Our brains can do funny things under stress, and the scarcity effect generates a highly stressful experience. Because we are hard-wired to survive, a scarce resource gets our attention. And we can all thank our crazy, survival-obsessed brains for this self-defeating pattern! Your brain pays attention to self-talk.

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Degreed

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

At Duarte , we build courses by finding patterns in the work our consulting team does. It’s given us insights into how people’s brains function when they hear information communicated in story form: 1. The smaller triangle distracted the bully’s attention and locked the bully inside the large rectangle. Stories stick.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 18, 2018

The new frameworks started showing that we could posit quite a bit about what went on ‘in the box’ We got concepts like sensory, working, and long-term memory, and processes like attention, rehearsal, encoding, and retrieval. With most of our learning prescriptions. Associated with this was a new model of cognition.

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