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MANAGING INFORMATION OVERLOAD

Learnnovators

The common wisdom amongst instructional designers is to avoid creating an information overload. It’s far worse when we turn that folksy wisdom on ourselves and cap our professional development by avoiding information overloads ourselves! Don’t overburden the learner. Just keep things simple. Make it easy.

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The One Thing Every Instructional Designer Must Do

LearnDash

One of the best pieces of advice I received in regards to my instructional design career was to never be afraid of hard numbers, and to go one step further – talk about your accomplishments in hard numbers. In a world of information overload, quick facts and stats are memorable. instructional design'

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The Art of Persuasion: Harnessing Neuromarketing for Dynamic eLearning

eLearningMind

In today’s digital age, where attention spans are short and information overload is a constant challenge, eLearning has become a powerful tool for engaging learners and delivering effective training. This, in turn, enhances engagement, focus, and information retention.

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What Is eLearning? The Good, Bad, and The Ugly

Association eLearning

You may have collected a massive amount of information, and it’s probably all important in its own right, but there should never be a time when you try to cram every nugget of knowledge into your course. It’s worth the extra time to ensure your course says something about the quality of your product. Or was it internet gymnastics?)

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I’m Glad Millennials Scare Learning and Development – Part 3

Association eLearning

Microlearning aims to avoid information overload and learner fatigue, easily fit into daily schedules, and speed up the production process. For example, if you spend five minutes a day on something every day for a year that’s about thirty hours.

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Creating Branching Scenario Layouts

Experiencing eLearning

I created a branching scenario prototype in Twine a while back about an instructional design consultant screening and booking a new client. Maybe this is too much on the screen at once and will be information overload. My previous posts have shown my process for planning and writing the scenario. I spent about 1.5

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Is Content Curation the Future of Instructional Design?

Litmos

Even if you’re in a large Fortune 500 enterprise with the luxury of a Learning and Development department, do you really see content curation as part of curriculum design, management leadership development, onboarding, sales training, etc.? Have you suffered from information overload? Curation and The Instructional Designer.