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Friday Finds — MicroLearning, Automating Creativity & Better Video for Learning

Mike Taylor

” Coined in 2002, microlearning refers to shorter learning sessions compared to traditional teaching. These lessons should focus on limited content to avoid cognitive overload. Take away: “In sum, the length and structure of a microlesson should be informed by cognitive load theory and not by time frame.”

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | January 3, 2020

Mike Taylor

Here are seven situational factors that compromise your cognitive ability and result in increased odds of stupidity by @IAmAdamRobinson on the @farnamstreet blog. The brain hack is called “implementation intentions,” a fancy term for what some also referred to as “if/then” plans or “when/where/how” plans. How Not to Be Stupid.

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Learning first, technology second

Learning with e's

Let me give you an example: Many schools, colleges and universities have by now implemented a managed learning environment (MLE) sometimes referred to as a virtual learning environment (VLE) or Learning Management System (LMS). Sometimes, the technology does get in the way of learning and teaching.

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This could have been an email: Why low-context communication is the Dark Horse skill of the modern workplace

TalentLMS

The popularity of GitLab’s open-source Remote Playbook speaks for itself.) Jargon, idioms, obscure cultural references, unconsciously biased language, physical gestures, and body language can, at best, create barriers to communication. The benefits of remote and hybrid working are well documented.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Beginning Instructional Designers Toolkit

Learning Visions

Because its true -- you can impress your clients and peers by working "cognitive load" into a sentence. Im not saying that these theories are right or wrong -- but they get tossed about and referred to with great relish by some in the industry. Rand Spiro -- Cognitive Flexibility Theory (CFT) 2:52 PM Cammy Bean said. We got Wii!

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Global forces

Learning with e's

This refers not only to what we buy (clothing, food, goods) but also how we learn, consume news, spend our leisure time as we are continually exposed to media. Excerpt from The Death of Distance by Steve Wheeler and Shannon Amiotte References Dicken, P. We all need to make choices, but how free are we to choose? Giddens, A.

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Learning and Development Glossary

Petra Mayer

Therefore, the idea of this blog is to provide an easy reference around the varied concepts in learning and development. It is a classification system of power verbs that helps define and distinguish the phases of human cognition. MOOC is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access using the internet.