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The Eyes Have It – How the Brain Uses Our Eyes to See the World

Learningtogo

As I look for practical applications of neuroscience, I sometimes stumble upon things we believe at some instinctual level that we can now say we “know” because of evidence uncovered in a living brain. One example of this is the way we talk about inspiration and creativity as a sudden flash of light or a light bulb turning on.

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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

That’s all fair, and we should seek to accommodate as many people as possible in our pursuit of effective training. Oddly enough, however, it’s a rare day when you hear people say “I learn so much better when my brain is trying to do two things at once.” Why don’t we hear that? Because it’s not true.

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Spaced Odyssey: How Spaced-Retrieval Improves Learning

eLearning Alchemy

The term “brain science” gets a lot of play these days. Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoy they “one-dayer” (as a learner and as a facilitator) unfortunately, it simply isn’t an effective model for long-term knowledge retention. Our brains need to forget unimportant information to prevent us from going insane. Length : 848 words.

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Use Your E-Learning Course to Change Behavior

LearnDash

While prompts are effective ways to remind your learners to stop and take action, they can fall short of their purpose if they’re delivered at the wrong moment. Teaching observation as a behavior ties in to the skill of drawing. Set dynamic triggers based on learner actions. Reinforce behaviors through practice.

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The budget didn’t fail your low-budget eLearning. What else did? Your enthusiasm to use all of it.

Eat Learn Repeat

The training wasn’t very effective since we had very small budgets and couldn’t do a lot of stuff we wanted to.”. “We We do not have many funds, but we’ll try to do our best to make it effective.” Is this how you arrive at your project budgets? “I promise, it’s not us!” The first point to be noted here. how not to.

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Why Engaging Learning?

Clark Quinn

in what was effectively ‘applied cognitive science’, but games continued to play a role in my career. One of the concerns was that things were changing fast even then (Flash was still very much in play, for example ;). So I tied it to cognitive principles, as our brains aren’t changing that fast.

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Power of Data Visualization – Why Looks Matter for HR Data

Inquisiq

The human brain is wired to process information visually, making visualization one of the best ways to understand data, particularly when presenting to business leaders and other stakeholders in your company. You’re all left brain and no right. This isn’t an earth-shattering notion.

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