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Higher Ed’s Commitment to Freedom of Inquiry Benefits Business

CLO Magazine

It activates the same part of the brain that lights up, so to speak, when it experiences cognitive dissonance — that moment of mental distress, when, for instance, you’re being told one thing but see something that’s contradictory to it. That’s not terribly hard to believe considering that human brains are wired to seek balance.

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Learning’s Role in Innovation

CLO Magazine

The point is not to leave it to chance, but to successfully integrate and align the elements with the organizational goals as well as how our brains work. Culture: Unlike the movie “Field of Dreams,” it’s not a case of, “If you build it, they will come.” One of the best ways for a CLO to foster innovation is to start internally.

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Why we hate to lose: using emotion to drive learning objectives

CLO Magazine

I found it fascinating to learn from Hills that as we walk around, being human, we’re constantly bombarded with information and we can’t retain it all, so our brains need to figure out what to screen out and what to remember. We are drawn to experiences that allow us to feel things (think horror movies and tear-soaked romance films).

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7 Ways to Boost Leadership EQ

CLO Magazine

Fortunately these skills can be practiced and developed, and the latest research on brain function shows that focusing on just a few EQ behaviors can have a significant impact on overall performance. Developing a mental “movie” of and clearly imagining different behaviors will help prepare people for these situations.

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Enough already with ILT

eLearning 24-7

When a learning system pushes the power of data with their brain-based research from experts in elite colleges, and experts on learning with the brain, folks rush to it, without question. You are likely to have higher retention for the movie you saw, a month ago, or the horrific car wreck you drove by, three weeks prior.

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Can Music Make for Better Learners?

CLO Magazine

” Determining the type of music that actually makes people more productive comes down to brain science. Most music — the kind listened to for entertainment — is targeting the part of the brain that triggers dopamine, the pleasure chemical in the brain’s limbic system, Henshall said.

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8 Dirty Words

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

CLO online edition. Better to speak of collaboration or boosting brain power. Avoiding eLearning because of a bad early experience is like going to a movie and saying you’ll never go to another one of those because movies suck. A few of you have asked how my blog posts differ from the columns published in CLO.