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Improving Instructional Design with Images, Illustrations, and Animation

eLearningMind

It’s called cognitive load theory (CLT). Images are useful because they are processed more easily by the brain, decreasing the cognitive load and increasing the ability for learning, understanding, and recall. Photographs can also be disengaging (think generic stock photography) or highlight a lack of diversity.

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Seeing the Brain Through the Eyes of an Artist: Elizabeth Jameson

Learningtogo

When it comes to art – whether it’s painting, photography, sculpture or some other medium, the results are similar. The performing arts, as they are often called, are also being used as therapy and treatment for a variety of brain diseases and cognitive malfunctions. Disrupting our Perceptions of Illness and the Brain.

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5 Key Trends in the Future of eLearning

SmartUp

Social learning is based on a theory developed by psychologist Albert Bandura that proposes learning is a cognitive process that takes place in a social context and occurs purely through observation or direct instruction. This theory considers how both environmental and cognitive factors interact to influence human learning and behaviour. .

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Learning Solutions 2022 - Conference Summary #LSCon

Learning Visions

Random stock photography of dogs and chess pieces and whatever weird things the Guild decided they wanted to throw at us. Then then starting mapping everything to domains (cognitive, psychomotor, affective). 5 presenters, ad libbing and improvising our ways through decks we had never seen on topics we drew out of a hat.

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What's really ready for prime time in corporate learning?

Litmos

The cognitive benefits of performance support are many. The big picture is providing help in the moment to counter our cognitive gaps. Similarly, photography, audio recording, and then video recording likewise surpassed our personal memory. Which brings up performance support as another ‘ready for primetime’ players.

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Stories and Memory, Games, LXD: ID Links 12/12/23

Experiencing eLearning

Affectively charged recollections have been dubbed “flash-bulb” memories, to communicate the idea that emotional events are deeply imprinted on the mind, like a flash aiding photography (Winograd & Neisser, 1992 ). In education there tends to be a clear emphasis on cognition while emotion is hardly part of the conversation.

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The Most Wrong Argument about Video Games and Art

Mark Oehlert

I don't think everyone should play games all the time but I do agree with people like Jane McGonigal about the positive impact of games, and with other studies that detail both the positive cognitive and motor skill improvements that acrue from game-playing (not to mention the social benefits as well). Photography? (I

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