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Train Your Brain with Games

eLearning Brothers

Our eLearning Rockstars Stage was the place to be at DevLearn 2017. How games stimulate mental cognition and produce positive brain changes. How playing immersive, exploratory games is a workout for the brain and can drive home on-the-job skills. In our first session, we heard from Stephen Baer of The Game Agency.

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Learning & development conferences in 2024

Limestone Learning

And as a bonus, you’ll find plenty of online options, making conferences more accessible and affordable than ever. Keep checking back on this list of 2024 conferences, as dates and venues occasionally change. Watch this space throughout the year! Have you experienced strategies that did not work out as well as you had hoped?

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Friday Finds — 

Mike Taylor

A study published in Scientific Reports suggests that coffee has beneficial effects on cognitive function, and it may do this by reorganizing brain functional connectivity. DevLearn (October 24-28) – I’m doing two pre-conference workshops this year! Next, Connie Malamed recommends reading Are your online tests reliable ?

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[Guest Post] How One Neuroscience Principle Can Make or Break Your Training Program

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Although he spent his entire day sitting on his butt in some conference room, by the end of the day he looked like he had run two marathons. Well, here's how a neuroscientist might explain it: The brain, despite being just ~2% of our body's mass, actually accounts for ~20% of our body's total energy consumption. What is 20%?

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Learning Styles Don't Exist

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

Shouldn't we be listening to the Cognitive Psychologists and Neuroscientists? Medina's book, Brain Rules has quickly become a favorite of mine. DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA DevLearn 2008 Conference & Expo - November 10-14 - San Jose, CA I think so.

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The Shoemaker’s Children – How Travel, Training and Social Learning Expand Your Mind

Learningtogo

The hippocampus is a remarkable structure within the Limbic system , sometimes called the “midbrain,” referring to our understanding that it evolved in early mammals as a means of separating mammalian species from more primitive species with “reptilian” brains. How London Cabbies Change Their Brains. Travel Wakes Up Your Lazy Brain.

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The DevLearn eLearning Rockstar Stage Reveal

eLearning Brothers

We have our very own Learning Stage at DevLearn this year! Train Your Brain with Games! How games stimulate mental cognition and produce positive brain changes. How playing immersive, exploratory games are a workout for the brain and can drive home on-the-job skills. Dreams do come true, kids. WEDNESDAY SESSIONS.