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When training backfires

CLO Magazine

You created enough mental space for them to recall the ask and hold it in their mind long enough to access it (cognitive win!). They put forth significant cognitive, emotive and behavioral effort to even get to this point. Welcome the negative ROI of training: For your team: low impact, increasing irrelevance.

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Benefits Of Microlearning Videos To Drive Employee Engagement

Wizcabin

Microlearning Videos Reduce Cognitive Overload And Help To Boost Learners’ Retention Ability. That’s because our brains are designed to respond to videos. On the other hand, cognitive overload can hinder the way learners retain knowledge. As we all know, videos are a better approach to catch humans’ attention.

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8 Must-Read Neurolearning™ Books

eLearningMind

Instead, Neurolearning is a combination of learning theory and neuroscience; a complicated study of how the brain (and the nervous system) works and reacts to stimuli and situations. The book also debunks many deep-rooted learning myths and replaces old ideas with a fresh, new look on how the brain reacts to different learning situations.

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Leaderboards in L&D Are Sexist

CLO Magazine

By combining several existing lines of research, I theorized that an alignment between an individual’s motivational style and the task incentive will increase cognitive effort, and ultimately learning. The task was similar to a hard skill learning task in the corporate learning space and required cognitive effort (i.e.,

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20 Key Takeaways from ATD 2019

Docebo

Panel discussion with learning leaders from PPD, Explorance and Verizon and also Patti Phillips from the ROI Institute covering how to measure and demonstrate the value of L&D. If the brain can’t predict what will come next, you’ll drive higher engagement and much higher memory retention. Session – Measurements that matter.

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How to Increase Employee Knowledge Retention

Lemonade

According to cognitive psychology, memory formation involves two essential parts: encoding and retrieval. Increased Knowledge Retention = Increased ROI Unless we’re running training to check a box (and we shouldn’t be), we generally want people to remember & implement what they’ve learned. Why does this happen?

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How Microlearning Will Benefit The Learners And Businesses

Wizcabin

Below are a few benefits of microlearning that can help an organization to achieve massive ROI. According to research by Sweller, the human brain has only a finite amount of space, so it can only take on a limited mental effort or cognitive load. Improves Learners’ Engagement. Wider Application.