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Best Practices to Ensure Successful Custom e-Learning Development

Infopro Learning

Creating a perfect balance of the content types is important to developing an interesting and fresh e-learning course. Prior experience with online learning: Individuals having prior experience with traditional learning may take some time to generate interest in e-learning.

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Fighting Forgetfulness

Association eLearning

Think of your brain as a refrigerator. In your brain, unused information gets tossed out too. What people learn in training is more important than recalling their second grade teacher’s name. Let’s go back to the “brain fridge.” That way, your brain remembers what’s in there and realizes, “Oh, this is getting used.

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Fighting Forgetfulness

Association eLearning

Think of your brain as a refrigerator. In your brain, unused information gets tossed out too. What people learn in training is more important than recalling their second grade teacher’s name. Let’s go back to the “brain fridge.” That way, your brain remembers what’s in there and realizes, “Oh, this is getting used.

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eLearning Glossary: Definitions for the Most Commonly Used Terms

Association eLearning

Grab a spoon, and let’s dig in to the soup, with this eLearning glossary. eLearning -Also referred to as internet-based learning, web-based learning, and online learning is any training or education delivered via computer. That’s where my brain goes when I hear “eLearning,” and I have fond memories of it.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

eLearning is an education system that primarily utilizes technology to transfer skills and knowledge. You might also notice eLearning being referred to as online learning, web-based learning, or distance learning. Our brains have been wired over the last 2,500 years to learn through stories.

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Chunking Information to Design eLearning

B Online Learning

How do I convert a large training manual into a short eLearning module? Chunking refers to the strategy of breaking down information into bite-sized pieces so that human brain can easily digest the new information. One of the ways we achieve this is through ‘chunking’. What exactly is ‘chunking’?

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Teach Your Members How to Build a Learning Habit

WBT Systems

How to Help Your Members Develop the Learning Habit. In the last few years, habit development has been a popular topic for TED talks and best-selling books. As behavioral scientists learn more about the brain, their findings on habit development have been the basis of countless articles in traditional and digital media.

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