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Common Brain-Based Presenting Questions Answered

InSync Training

At some point in your career, you will have to give a presentation or run a meeting. Regardless of whether you assume a role frequently requiring live delivery or one that very rarely demands public speaking, you should know how to capture people’s attention.

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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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eLearning & Training: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

If your lesson plays too long, you run the risk of losing the attention span of your learner and lowering the effectiveness of the lesson in general. The answer is directly tied to the average attention span of an adult learner. " In the 1800s, people had very good attention spans. Why are attention spans getting shorter?

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Friday Finds — Animations & Learning, Attention Span, Learning Sciences

Mike Taylor

Last Week’s Most Clicked Do more with Google Docs News & Notes People Pay Attention Better Today Than 30 Years Ago — Really! Introduction to Learning Sciences” explores how the brain learns, focusing on encoding, consolidating, and retrieving information. I’m really dating myself here, aren’t I?

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Lumosity Review: Do Brain Training Games Make You Smarter?

Origin Learning

There is a plethora of online games out there that promise to make you more intelligent if you signup with them and follow a disciplined brain-training regime. The game starts with a basic free version that assigns you a daily brain workout by letting you play 3 games each day. Why not try Lumosity and see how it works for you?

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Two Simple Ways to Improve Your Presentations

InSync Training

Give presentations? Brain-based learning expert Sharon Bowman shared her presentation model and guided our Virtually There participants through a process for getting the brain to pay attention. Virtually There Recap. Think about your day-to-day role. Do you host meetings? Facilitate training?

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Keeping Your Learners’ Attention: How Our Brain Decides What to Focus On

Learnkit

These thoughts can be true for some, but if elearning is presented effectively, with the learner’s attention span in mind, we can see a shift in this ideology. To curb learners from being distracted, elearning needs to be designed to grasp the learner’s attention. Applying memory as a trigger can be done in various ways.