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“Brain Freeze: Does your eLearning System Cause Learning Paralysis?”

Vignettes Learning

However, the influx of information to an individual’s brain may prove to be debilitating to one’s decision making process or may result to learning paralysis for learners. A serious side effect is “ brain freeze.” In her study, volunteers’ brain activities were measured with an fMRI. In “Dying for Information?”

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"Why Exaggeration Works in Learning"

Vignettes Learning

It’s humor and sarcasm underlies the objective of helping the learners discover the embedded learning content in the midst of a lighthearted approach. __ More often than not we associate exaggeration with comedy films. These are often high impact points in the learning process. Click here to view "Symptoms of Info Overload".

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How I Caught Up on my RSS Feeds

Learning Developments

Now I want to share a couple of ways I've been able to manage the information overload that is common when subscribing to many blogs. Quickly determine if the blog post your looking at is pertinent information for your job over the next year. While a lot of the postings about learning 2.0

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"Is Google Making Us Stupid?" Or "Are We Dumbing Our Online Learners?"

Vignettes Learning

Nick Carr This is a MUST reading if you are into e-Learning and web-based training or any technology- assisted work. educational consortium, that provide access to journal articles, e-books, and other sources of written information. What happens to learning when learners skim and scan the content? "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"

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Working Smarter: Most popular posts of 2011

Jay Cross

Working smarter draws upon ideas from design thinking, network optimization, brain science, user experience design, learning theory, organizational development, social business, technology, collaboration, web 2.0 5 Stages of Workplace Learning (Revisited) - Jane Hart , December 6, 2011.

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Best of eLearning Learning. Most learning vendors tout their ‘expertise in instructional design’ as a key reason as to why we should engage them to produce learning content. I’ve re-worked the model to show: my domain is the workscape (the merger of work and learning, the learning ecosystem). Challenging?