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The Podcast Renaissance Educators Revolutionizing Audio Learning

HexaLearn

The Magic Of Listening: Learning With Podcasts Let’s start with something simple yet profound: listening. Podcasts take that innate ability and transform learning from a passive activity into an engaging adventure. Podcasts take that innate ability and transform learning from a passive activity into an engaging adventure.

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Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention

eLearningMind

What is Multitasking? Multitasking is apparent human ability to perform more than one task at the same time. Therefore, multitasking often results in a high error rate. It might sound like two sides of the same coin, but multitasking is wildly different than continuous partial attention—especially for eLearning purposes.

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Audiolearning: a media that makes noise

Coorpacademy

Learn how to provide an offer of engaging and efficient training podcasts and audio content! The podcast, a growing format. You can listen to it anywhere, whenever and it lasts an average of 25 minutes: the podcast. Podcasts cover different uses: they can inform, entertain or immerse their audience in life stories.

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eLearning Podcasts (and a few others)

The eLearning Coach

I’m addicted to podcasts because they’ve changed my life. Although there are many education-related podcasts, there are surprisingly few devoted to eLearning in the workplace. Xyleme Voices is an excellent podcast hosted by Dawn Poulos of Xyleme Learning. I learn with mine. Must … find … more.

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5 Ways Mobile Learning Can Enhance Your Course

LearnDash

Sometimes I substitute audiobooks for podcasts. As a result, many popular podcast are often much longer than video content—anywhere from twenty minutes to an hour. It takes time for our brains to identify which pieces of information in our short-term memory are important enough to move to long-term storage.

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The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | July 27, 2018

Mike Taylor

I hope your brain is ready for this week’s roundup? No matter what, I think you’ll find some great brain and learning-related knowledge that you’ll want to check out. Battling the Bandwidth of your Brain. Books/Courses/Podcasts. Follow me on Twitter or even better, subscribe to my newsletter.

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How Can We Shift the Way We Learn to Adapt to Our Changing Attention Span?

SmartUp

Alternating attention is the ability of mental flexibility that allows you to shift your focus of attention and move between tasks; alternating your attention back and forth between two different tasks that require the use of different areas of your brain. Divided Attention . Guess what?