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Understanding How We Learn: Video vs. Text

fewStones

How Our Brains Process Information Remembering Things Remembering things is making mental notes in your brain. When you learn something, your brain takes snapshots using your senses, such as seeing, hearing, or feeling. It then stores these snapshots, a bit like putting photos into an album. Let’s get started!

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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Brains switch off when we see a slide full of bullet points. Our brains are active for language processing but nothing else. When we hear stories, our brains light up all over–we experience a story as if we were part of it. Our brains are wired to learn from stories. Support attention. Why do stories work?

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10 Things That Learners Pay Attention To (And How to Use Them in eLearning)

SHIFT eLearning

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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What Color is Your Learning?

Learningtogo

Close your eyes again and picture your training room or elearning template. Do you intentionally choose some colors over others because of their effect on the brain, or is the decision made by default to match the other rooms in the office, or the colors in the corporate logo? Color is Processed in Multiple Parts of the Brain.

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Animations in eLearning: How to Make Them Work for You

eLearningMind

By definition, animation is a process of creating the illusion of motion in objects that would normally be static, done for the purpose of telling a story or providing a moving visual to direct the audience’s attention. Animation engages the brain. Animation is unique because it reduces the cognitive load on your brain.

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Benefits Of Microlearning Videos To Drive Employee Engagement

Wizcabin

As we all know, videos are a better approach to catch humans’ attention. That’s because our brains are designed to respond to videos. Also, a picture is worth more than a thousand words, and so are videos. Photo by Magnus on Unsplash. That’s why it’s essential to prevent it as much as possible.

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Presentation storytelling with visuals of people

BrightCarbon

If ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’, how much value do visuals of people in our presentations have? In fact, almost half our brain is involved in visual processing and can identify images in as little as 13 milliseconds. Studies have shown that pictures on social media with humans attract more views than pictures without.