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eLearning Skills 2030: Sparking Curiosity

eLearning Industry

Curious learners pursue knowledge-rich and cognitively challenging work, are able to connect the dots and see patterns across seemingly unrelated fields, and usually come up with new ideas and ways to solve problems. This article discusses why curiosity is important and how to develop it.

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3 ways to build adaptive global workforce skills

CLO Magazine

It’s no longer enough to provide employees with skills that merely help them perform in a structured, familiar situation. Now it’s essential to develop the skills for a world and a workplace of challenge and disruption. Fortunately, resilience is a learnable skill.

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The Power of Digital – How can L&D Teams Embrace this Transformation

Infopro Learning

This will help L&D teams to: Address changing work patterns mindfully. Retrain existing employees to learn new skills and adapt to change. Social learning is a cognitive process in a social setting and can occur through observation or teaching. Attract, hire, and retain L&D talent. Adopt immersive technologies.

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Must-have skills for User Experience (UX) design in eLearning

eFront

The hype about User Experience (UX) design skills is not at all exaggerated. The good news is that anyone with eLearning development skills can train to improve their UX strategies. What UX designers lack is the knowledge of how people learn : human cognition. The most desired skills for UX design in eLearning.

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When is Microlearning the Right Solution?

Upside Learning

There are gaps in our cognitive architecture. There are other gaps in our cognitive architecture. To go further, cognitive science recognizes that cognition is ‘distributed’, that is, it’s not all in our heads. That is, when folks need to perform a complex skill without support. Each has its place.

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Benefits of Scenario-Based Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Ruth Clark’s book Scenario-Based e-Learning: Evidence Based Guidelines for Online Workforce Learning explains how scenario-based elearning helps people learn new skills faster. Learners can build critical thinking skills. Accelerated expertise. She explains that scenarios can “accelerate expertise.”

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The Cognitive Science Behind Learning

CLO Magazine

There are levels of analysis; neural is one, but the next level up is the cognitive level. That’s where most of the important implications come from, as well as the social level above the cognitive. The Cognitive Umbrella. Instead, it’s about patterns of activation that represent various things like concepts and actions.