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How to stimulate engagement in elearning

KnowledgeOne

” In active engagement, the learner is an actor in their learning and mobilizes as many of their cognitive skills as possible. Action, trial and error and emotions therefore play important roles in learning,” explains cognitive development and learning specialist Olivier Houdé in his book L’école du cerveau.

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The Crucial Role of Emotions and “Skilled” Intuitions in Learning

KnowledgeOne

Such is the case with the role of emotions in cognition and learning and their interrelationship with rational thought. A significant revelation from neuroscience is the pivotal role of emotions in cognition and learning. Recent discoveries in neuroscience are prompting us to rethink some of our previous ideas about learning.

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The Social Dimension of Learning: Test Your Knowledge!

KnowledgeOne

Are you familiar with empathy pedagogy and collaborative learning? Terms: group activities, challenging tasks, new practices and perspectives, new aspects of their issues. Working with clients: this allows a better understanding of the client from new aspects of their issues , requests and ideas that emerge from these meetings.

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Online training in empathic mode

KnowledgeOne

Among its approaches, the pedagogy of empathy is one that can be implemented even in simplified elearning solutions. Empathy consists of two dimensions, one emotional and the other cognitive. Here is what this approach is all about! Empathy in two dimensions. The first refers to the ability to feel the emotional state of the other.

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Constructive vs instructive

Clark Quinn

The issue was whether the solutions I was proposing are having the learners be self directed or whether it was ‘push’ learning. I’m pushing a very activity-based pedagogy (and curriculum). A commenter on last week’s post asked an implicit question that caused me to think.

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Video: The power and the story

Learning with e's

As politely as I could, I explained to him that making his students sit through a full 90 minutes of video was not particularly good pedagogy. The first is cognitive load - i.e. the amount of information we can process and absorb through our primary senses; in this case, our audio and visual channels. Cognitive Science 12, 257-285.

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The Role of Virtual Labs in Immersive Learning

Magic EdTech

For example, activities that would necessitate custom and sometimes costly physical lab setups are difficult to imitate due to time, resources, or safety issues. Owing to virtual lab development, experiments can now be performed in the classroom or at home in a digital setup without losing the pedagogy and objectives.