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The (Post) Cognitive Perspective

Clark Quinn

I’m deeply steeped in the cognitive sciences, owing to a Ph.D. in cognitive psych. Fortuitively, this was at the time my advisor was creating the cognitive science program (and more). Yet I also have a fair bit of empirical evidence that taking a cognitive perspective accomplishes things that are hard to do in other ways.

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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 and the Brain

eLearning Brothers

Or are we all just using different terms to promote the need for aligning how our organizations work with how our brains work? We hosted a great webinar a while back with cognitive scientist Carmen Simon. Today, we have our own in-house cognitive science expert, Marty Rosenheck! Is L&D a subset of organizational psychology?

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Tools for LXD?

Clark Quinn

I’ve been thinking on LXD for a while now, not least because I’ve an upcoming workshop at DevLearn in Lost Wages in October. The simple rationale, of course, is that there are things our brains are good at, and things they’re not. This makes the case for tools that help scaffold these gaps in our cognition.

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Donald Clark: Algorithmic/Adaptive Learning #DevLearn

Learning Visions

These are my live blogged notes from the opening session at this year's DevLearn, hosted by the eLearning Guild and happening in Las Vegas. Forgive any typos and incoherencies. Donald Clark @donaldclark “Learning Prediction for 2015 and Beyond: Two Small Letters” Algorithms and predictive analytics – Netflix knows what you want to watch.

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Medina keynote on Brain Rules at DevLearn 08

Clark Quinn

John Medina gave the closing keynote at DevLearn, based upon his book Brain Rules. One of his points was that our brains evolved to provide ongoing performance guidance over hours of constant motion (evolutionarily). He covered two of his 12 rules, on memory, and on exercise.

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Designing Learning Like Professionals

Clark Quinn

Our brains are arguably the most complex things in the known universe, yet we don’t treat our discipline as the science it is. And this does not mean paying attention to so-called ‘brain science’ There is legitimate brain science (c.f. To truly design learning, we need to understand learning science.

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