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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” Why don’t we hear that?

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Cognitive Load Theory: The Key to Smarter Instructional Design

Origin Learning

What is cognitive load theory (CLT)? Attributable to John Sweller who developed this theory after thoroughly studying problem solving, CLT provides guidelines for improving learning and retention by focusing on the memory capacity of human beings. Ironic as it may sound, germane load is actually a desirable one.

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Friday Finds — Primal Brain, Instructional Videos, AI Learning Design

Mike Taylor

Last Week’s Most Clicked The “secret sauce” behind the world’s most popular online course News & Notes Speak to the Primal Brain This post is for Learning and Development (L&D) professionals, urging them to borrow strategies from marketing to engage the primal brain.

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10 Training Theories

Ed App

Getting a clear grasp of different training theories will allow you to build more meaningful content and more effective training programs for your employees. Here, you’ll find a quick rundown of 10 training theories, emphasizing their key concepts and how you can apply them to achieve your training objectives. Goal-setting theory.

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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

While trainers have to preferably keep up with the latest developments and trends, there is a lot to be saiz about adult learning and how it applies to successful L&D interventions. In a series of articles, I will take a closer look at three modern adult learning theories that are not only relevant but highly applicable.

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Taxonomy of Learning Theories

E-Learning Provocateur

Academia is teeming with learning theories. It can be quite a challenge for the modern learning professional to identify an appropriate learning theory, draw practical ideas from it, and apply it to their daily work. Which theory do you choose? How does it relate to other theories? Where do you start? Overarching themes.

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3 Steps to Transition From Teacher to Trainer (and One Word of Caution)

Learningtogo

As serious as this problem is for talent development leaders, the education sector has been suffering its own talent drain, beginning before the pandemic turned the world upside down. Let’s focus on this opportunity and figure out how to best develop all this new talent coming our way. But maybe we should.

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