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Improving Instructional Design with Images, Illustrations, and Animation

eLearningMind

You’ve probably heard that the human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Perhaps you even know that MIT found that the brain could recognize images in as little as 13 milliseconds—literally in the blink of an eye. But do you know why brains love images over other forms of information? Conclusion.

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Chemical Romance: Why Your Brain Falls in Love with Stories

eLearningMind

Hearing a story actually, causes fundamental reactions in the brain that increase memory and even improve chances at changed behavior. Understanding how the brain reacts to a good story makes all the difference in telling a tale of chemical romance, active neurons, and learned empathy. Take Me Away. Chemical Romance. Start Me Up.

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Elearning Statistics 2020

Ed App

They also predicted that this kind of shift was only expected to grow by organisations, where the eLearning market size was expected to grow beyond $200 billion by the year 2025 – and this was all before COVID-19 hit. Sign up for free and start using the best eLearning platform of 2020. But why the growth?

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Mindful Eating: Eating Mindfully by Minding What You Eat

eLearningMind

If you’ve got a particularly long training session or meeting coming up, your brain needs all the help it can get. Recent research says that certain foods improve cognition, while others are harmful to your brain. Antioxidant-rich Foods Are Good for Your Brain. Fatty Foods Are Bad for Your Brain. Mindful eating.

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The Shift from Static to Multimedia Communication

eLearningMind

Sometimes your brain just needs a rest because we know that brains are ultimately lazy organs. So give them a break by giving them images to process rather than text; images are processed 60,000 times faster than text by the brain.

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17 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest – 15

Upside Learning

For all you Tech savvy folks, get the scoop on how technology wires the learning brain and how HTML 5 aids cross platform development. Even though technological innovation occurs at rapid speed and new learning theories emerge from cognitive research, large and entrenched training organizations move like slow dinosaurs. That’s not all.

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Is Multimedia the Most Underrated Tool for Internal Communication?

eLearningMind

We know that images are processed 60,000 times faster than text by the brain and that brains are ultimately lazy organs. They’re constantly looking for the fastest ways through information and any method that reduces cognitive work on their parts.