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Understanding Learning Styles Research

Experiencing eLearning

Too many people have been talking about learning styles research lately for me to try to cite them all here. Many have commented on the Learning Styles Don’t Exist video, for example. Should we be using learning styles? Using any learning style model makes people too eager to label each other.

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Brain Learning and eLearning Design

The Learning Circuits

There's been a lot of discussion around cognitive theory and "how the brain learns." But even with all of that discussion there's a question of whether people are really making changes to the design of their online learning. So the July Question is: Does the discussion of "how the brain learns" impact your eLearning design?

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Metalearning and Learning Styles

Big Dog, Little Dog

It is often used in Learning Style theory. While Learning Styles has been written and blogged about a lot lately, normally in response to two papers, Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence and Learning Styles and Pedagogy in Post-16 Learning , I believe it is going in the wrong direction.

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mLearning Strategy

Ed App

Similar to a Netflix algorithm, features such as Brain Boost use spaced repetition to boost learner retention and refresh acquired knowledge in the ideal window of opportunity before it falls off the edge of Ebbinghaus’ forgetting curve. . The technology/pedagogy nexus of a mobile learning strategy. Mix things up!

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How to Improve Student Retention in eLearning

CourseArc

According to Psychology Today , while the human brain is capable of multi-tasking, it does far better when processing basic tasks. In her research about human emotion and memory , Elizabeth Phelps, Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University, notes that emotions and memory work together in our brains.

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How to Design Emotionally Intelligent Student Centered Courses with Iggy Perillo

LifterLMS

And it’s kind of like a projection of oh, well, everybody sees the world like I do, or everybody likes to learn the way I like to learn, so I’m gonna teach it that way. But the challenge with education is, and online as well, there’s You know, the different learning styles. Is pedagogy.

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Top 113 eLearning Posts and 28 Hottest Topics for 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Anatomy of a PLE - Learning with e’s , July 11, 2010. Nuts and Bolts: Brain Bandwidth - Cognitive Load Theory and Instructional Design by Jane Bozarth - Learning Solutions Magazine , August 2, 2010. Learning styles: Worth our time? Wikis and Learning – 60 Resources - eLearning Technology , July 13, 2010.