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The Neuroscience of Gamification in Online learning

Growth Engineering

When we are engaged in a strong narrative, the brain releases oxytocin – a chemical that generates feelings of trust and empathy. Gamification helps deal with cognitive overload. If the cognitive load is too great, the learner could miss information, resulting in incomplete training. Games teach work skills.

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21C Workplace Skills and L&D

ID Reflections

Going through my blog-roll, I read two related posts – Four Basic Skills for 2020 by Harold Jarche and Technology Changes Everything by Jane Hart. Harold’s post also pointed to a report called Future Work Skills 2020 published by the Institute for the Future for the University of Phoenix Research Institute.

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User-generated content in training: everything you need to know

TalentLMS

Also known as the IKEA effect , this cognitive bias can be very beneficial in eLearning. User-generated content resonates with employees more, as it’s the work of people they know and trust, and who speak the same language as them. Seasoned employees inspire trust and can be very motivating for newer employees.

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Prediction: Half of Fortune 500 CEOs will be women before 2030

CLO Magazine

Doing so results in mutual caring and trusting relationships that enable the highest levels of human emotional, cognitive and behavioral collaborative performance. Generally speaking, the new-way-of-working skills come much more naturally to women than to men, and the research shows it. Digital-Age Skills.