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Attention is underrated

Clark Quinn

Attention is a complex phenomena. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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Attention is underrated

Upside Learning

Attention is a complex phenomenon. Trivial attention is probably overrated, but meaningful attention is underrated. Attention, I’ll suggest, is how we pay conscious awareness to our thinking. This is the picture I paint in Learning Science for Instructional Designers, my recent book on how we learn.

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Understanding How We Learn: Video vs. Text

fewStones

People have different ways to absorb information, whether through text learning materials or educational videos. How Our Brains Process Information Remembering Things Remembering things is making mental notes in your brain. So, when you need to remember, your brain can flip through these mental pictures and bring back the information.

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5 Ways to Bring Contextual Learning to Your Association

Association eLearning

Are we talking about a car in an action movie, a firework, or some leftovers that were microwaved for too long? Without context the information is meaningless. Making your association’s learning contextual will not only help your members make sense of information, it will also help them remember it. Why did it blow up?

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WEAVING A TALE – HOW STORYTELLING CAN ENHANCE INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Learnnovators

Picture this scene in the 1980s. While the end goal of education is effective education; for us to reach that end goal, we need to be able to get through to the learner by engaging their senses and getting them to pay attention to the material. Now, imagine a movie that was not very high budget, but still you connected with.

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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Retold for instructional designers on focusing on the big picture and business impact rather than getting lost in the details of “order taking” for developing courses. Be detail oriented, craft mental movies. Give sensory information. Support attention. Ask SMEs for real examples. Start with a story.

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eLearning Strategies to watch out for in 2023

Paradiso

eLearning courses becomes easy, natural, and seamless when you develop e-learning experiences that link your learners with your online information. You may prevent cognitive overload, which keeps students from paying attention and engaged, by organizing your learning programs. And it endures.