The Performance Improvement Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

However, our close look at the corporate world showed quite a different picture: many large corporations seemed over-run by stupidity. This is much more than taking advantage of the various inbuilt cognitive biases with which behavioural economists are so obsessed. It is often intentionally created.

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CLO Magazine

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The world is evolving so quickly it’s difficult to gain a clear, confident picture of what the future will look like for our companies and our employees. In its ” 2023 Future of Jobs” report , the World Economic Forum stated that “soft skills are critical to companies being able to respond to change,” particularly cognitive and social skills.

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eLearningMind

JULY 17, 2023

Animation engages the brain. When your brain experiences more than one sense at a time, it releases feel-good hormones like endorphins, oxytocin, and dopamine. Animation directs focus, introduces characters and storylines, and utilizes sound and humor—creating a multi-sensory experience for your learners.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

MAY 30, 2022

Most of us wouldn’t choose a job in a busy restaurant as a way to relax our brains, but it works for Sheldon. Our brains normally look for patterns to help make sense of the world. By using patterns and routines, our brain gets more efficient—and sometimes a bit lazy. Here are some ideas: Sketch a picture. Play Music.

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CLO Magazine

MARCH 10, 2023

There is a winning approach: Combine education technology with brain-science principles of how we best learn. The brain is built for lifelong learning. The other type of conscious memory is called episodic — the personal memories we each have from lived experiences where we can recall the sights, sounds, smells and sensations.

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KnowledgeCity

JUNE 8, 2021

Picture this: It’s a routine Wednesday afternoon, halfway through a hectic work week, and you’re told that you need to complete a routine employee training module. Sound familiar? The following are some ways in which you will want to promote positive cognitive function as it relates to memory for your employees.

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eLearningMind

APRIL 17, 2017

Emails fail to grab attention in the same way pictures, sounds, motion. 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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Convergence Training

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Visuals, Dual-Channel Coding, and the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. eLearning designers need to do what they can to increase the odds that important information will “make it through” the brain’s filtering and selecting processes.

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eLearningMind

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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.

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CLO Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Third, as romantic as it sounds to quiet all the noise in one’s head, the journey to get to that peaceful place is actually work in itself, perhaps easier for those “for whom a given moment is more likely to be “sun-dappled yoga pose” than “hour 11 manning the fat fryer.”.

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Big Dog, Little Dog

MARCH 28, 2009

Although it sounds exciting at first, and certainly appeals to the emotions, several practical issues - all of which are ignored by the contributors to the ASTD 2019 discussion - limit the likelihood that organizations would primarily rely on informal learning. When Knowledge Management Hurts - Harvard Business School.

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Limestone Learning

APRIL 29, 2020

Thursday, May 7, 2020, 11AM – 12PM PT: Relevancy and Accessibility: The Keys To the Learning Experience Remember that age-old philosophical question about whether a tree makes a sound if it falls in the forest when no one’s around? Practice writing alt text for pictures and graphics.

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Learning Visions

MAY 16, 2007

I prefer to get the big picture view first, and often a diagram or metaphor will do that for me. They focus on the details, often missing the big picture that the N learner quickly grasps in reading a passage, because of their internal wiring. Im interested in your background -- it sounds like your experience is in the classroom.

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LifterLMS

OCTOBER 1, 2022

So I am always looking again at like the biggest problems biggest picture biggest hurdles people are up against and right now people are up against a lot. And what I find is that because of chronic inflammation, and this totally sucks, Chris, but cognitive function decreases. So right now, I’m a macro thinker.

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Jay Cross's Informal Learning

AUGUST 1, 2009

Brain Surgery Using Sound Waves - Technology Review Feed – Tech Review Top Stories , July 20, 2009. Complexity in Government - Cognitive Edge , July 22, 2009. The Paradigm Shift for Big Picture Thinking - Eide Neurolearning Blog , July 6, 2009. Seeing Our Culture With Fresh Eyes - OReilly Radar , July 23, 2009.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Cognitive Load. For a microvideo to be effective, there must be a reduction in cognitive load for the learner, which is the amount of information being processed by the brain. Dr. Richard Mayer outlined the process our brains process images and sounds with his theory of multimedia learning.

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TalentLMS

APRIL 29, 2020

Here’s an advice from this talented “Brain Lady” on how to make your online course more engaging: “Talk” to your learning audience as if you’re together. Whether you’re live or recording online content, there are real live people at the other end of the connection, and their brains need to work to learn. . What do I mean by this?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 3, 2018

Your brain fills in the details, completing the image. Scribe videos also kindle viewer anticipation by inviting the brain to speculate about what is being drawn. Anticipation creates surprise which then rewards the brain with dopamine.   Cognitive psychologist Richard E. Does that sound familiar?

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Convergence Training

AUGUST 12, 2016

” In comic books, McCloud is talking about pictures, written words, and other images within each pane. Likewise, eLearning courses also often include pictures, written words, icons, symbols, and other images. He goes further to list and give examples of specific ways that comics can blend words and pictures together.

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BrightCarbon

AUGUST 23, 2019

That sounds familiar! I wanted to help people be thoughtful about avoiding cognitive overload, enable them to create user experiences that were really easy to follow, and get them out of the mindset that this is just about making things pretty. A person’s brain can only take in a certain amount of information at a time.

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 3, 2018

Your brain fills in the details, completing the image. Scribe videos also kindle viewer anticipation by inviting the brain to speculate about what is being drawn. Anticipation creates surprise which then rewards the brain with dopamine.   Cognitive psychologist Richard E. Does that sound familiar?

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The Logical Blog by IconLogic

APRIL 3, 2018

Your brain fills in the details, completing the image. Scribe videos also kindle viewer anticipation by inviting the brain to speculate about what is being drawn. Anticipation creates surprise which then rewards the brain with dopamine.   Cognitive psychologist Richard E. Does that sound familiar?

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Spark Your Interest

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Disability : Making accommodations and offering support for those with physical, cognitive, behavioural, sensory, or communication impairments. It prevents participants from listening to a voice or seeing a picture and thinking, ‘They don’t sound Asian enough’ or ‘look Indigenous enough.’

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eLearningArt

JUNE 17, 2019

Because they’re about people DOING something … Not just an information dump where learners magically “ABSORB” the content (picture me doing air quotes). To avoid cognitive overload (brain fatigue), you may need to select less important details to leave out so learners can focus on the essentials.

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Spark Your Interest

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cognitive Load – the amount of knowledge in working memory to knowledge in long-term memory (prior knowledge). If the gap is too large, the learner suffers from cognitive overload and cannot process the information to learn the task. Find more details on Cognitive Load Theory applied to learning from the Medical College of Wisconsin.

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Matrix

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Now perhaps when I get around to developing a new mental model I may even figure out what all these are but I think we can all agree they sound pretty impressive. They show reality but the picture is incomplete. The cognitive range of motion is limited and as a result poor decisions and a certain functional inability will occur.

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Ed App

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Learning a language can often result in cognitive overload for learners, meaning that they are unable to withhold many pieces of new information at once. Studies conclude that the average human brain can only withhold 3-5 new pieces of information at any given time. Your Step-By-Step Guide to Learning a Language. The Bow-Wow Theory.

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BrightCarbon

JULY 31, 2019

I tech edited a PowerPoint exam at one point and a lot of questions were structed in this way: How do you insert a picture? a) You click Pictures on the Insert tab b) You click Pictures on the View tab… etc. We want you know how to insert a picture and then crop it or manipulate it in the way you need to. That’s the goal.

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Edume

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Watching a video activates our neural pathways more quickly - we are able to understand it in 250 milliseconds and it activates over 50% of our brains. Watching a video is a multisensory experience - it demands the faculties of both sight and sound, meaning more than one sense is utilized at once.

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Edume

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Watching a video activates our neural pathways more quickly - we are able to understand it in 250 milliseconds and it activates over 50% of our brains. Watching a video is a multisensory experience - it demands the faculties of both sight and sound, meaning more than one sense is utilized at once.

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eLearning Learning Posts

JULY 7, 2010

20 Facts You Must Know About Working Memory - The eLearning Coach , June 2, 2010 Without adapting learning experiences to the learner’s cognitive architecture, instructional design is hit or miss. He basically flipped quickly through the pages and stopped occasionally on a pretty picture and usually started flipping again.

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LifterLMS

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

It is a combination of what some might call left brain and right brain. He’s got both brains. In fact, in his book, he talks about four different brains, which we’ll get into in a little bit. ” And they’re like, “Oh, that sounds great.” Dan’s actually a unicorn.

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eLearning Learning Posts

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

believe the following are counter to adult learning theory, sound e-learning design and they just down-right irk me. Using Graphics To Improve Learning - The eLearning Coach , August 4, 2010 What are you doing about the picture superiority effect? They are not in any particular order. Force navigation. This is a must watch video.

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TalentLMS

MAY 26, 2021

For example, this whiteboard animation video from Sprouts created for school students quickly summarizes Piaget’s theory about the 4 stages of cognitive development: 2. Human brains, on average, retain five times more information from video content than they do from reading (the same content). Motion graphics videos.

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Kitaboo

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The human brain is said to process visual information faster than it processes text. Another interactive sound element you can add is background music. They are also known to improve a students language, social and cognitive skills and thus are a perfect addition to eLearning courses.

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eLearning Weekly

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Designers love a little cognitive load theory. Any glimpse into the brains of learners sparks a trainer’s curiosity. It makes sense: if you want to influence brains with new knowledge, it helps to know how brains function best while learning. Cognitive psychology ran smack into the hard wall of file size.

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eLearning Learning Posts

AUGUST 3, 2010

Brain Learning and eLearning Design - The Learning Circuits Blog , July 1, 2010 David Grebow suggested this month’s Big Question (thanks David). There’s been a lot of discussion around cognitive theory and “how the brain learns.&# Sounds simple? The one downside was sound. Too simple?

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