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Learning is Behaviour Change: why is it often so hard to help it happen?

Performance Learning Productivity

A fascinating article recently published on the Fast Company blog should be required reading for all learning and talent professionals as well as for leaders and managers. Nor does giving people accurate analyses and factual information about their situations.” So what else can be done to change behaviour and engender learning?

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Quizzes Improve Knowledge Retention

eLearning Company

Recent studies have shown that retrieval (a process of accessing certain information in your brain) is critical for robust, durable, long-term learning. The post Quizzes Improve Knowledge Retention appeared first on eLearning Company Blog.

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User-Generated Content is Going to Set Your Digital Learning Apart

eLearningMind

Here’s why: Your brain learns to quickly assess the motives behind communication. What better way to get learners to remember information than by asking them to teach others? Think back to the shopping scenario: When information is given to you via word of mouth, you’re more likely to believe its validity. Probably not.

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