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Cognitive and Learning Sciences

Clark Quinn

You’ll see a lot of vendors/sessions/webinars touting neuroscience or brain-based. Yes, our brains are composed of neurons, and we do care about what we know about brains. With powerful tools like MRI, we can understand lots more about what the brain does. So, we activate patterns. And above that, the social.

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Learning Science: The Coherence Principle Decoded

Mike Taylor

Picture this: I’m fresh on the scene as a new learning designer, proud of my first course about the pH of water systems in a coal-fired power plant. Irrelevant pictures, gratuitous use of color, and redundant bullet points are like cognitive speed bumps, slowing down the assimilation of essential information. The result?

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The Cognitive Science Behind Learning

CLO Magazine

The claim has been made, fairly, that the most complex thing in the known universe is the human brain. Therefore, to believe that a systematic and persistent change in operation can be done without a fairly deep understanding of the brain is simplistic. The Cognitive Umbrella. The brain doesn’t work like that.

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What 21st Century Science Says About Memorable Learning Experience At Work

Thinkdom

Learning is a complex process influenced by a variety of cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors. Thus, the use of pictures, diagrams, and other forms of visual aids added to verbal descriptions might enhance classroom learning. So, how does one put that into practice while developing training modules?

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Perchance to Dream – How sleep affects learning, memory and brain health

Learningtogo

While your body and your conscious mind appear to zone out during sleep, your brain is still very active, and doing some amazing things. People who don’t give their bodies enough time to completely break down this chemical start the day already drowsy and have a harder time focusing and functioning at peak cognitive levels.

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Personal processing

Clark Quinn

One of the major appeals of mobile is having versatile digital capabilities, the rote/complex complement to our pattern-matching brains, (I really wanted to call my mobile book ‘augmenting learning’) with us at all times. It makes us more effective. And that’s a good thing, I think.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It’s the classic storyline pattern from all of your favorite childhood fairytales: Hero is introduced; hero encounters trials; hero rises triumphant. Professor of Literature and mythologist Joseph Campbell was the first to formally identify the archetypal protagonist’s pattern in his 1949 book, The Hero with a Thousand Faces.