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Seven Things I Learned This Year

Tony Karrer

Joel Harband wrote a series of articles for my blog on Text-to-Speech in eLearning. Text-to-Speech Examples Text-to-Speech Costs – Licensing and Pricing But what I learned from this was that it was a fantastic way to learn about a topic where I was interested but didn’t have the time to spend researching it.

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Devlearn conference day one: an exhilarating day

Challenge to Learn

The brain filters information (to prevent information overload), in principle you forget the most information that you encounter, you need to reactivate the facts in order to really store them in your brain. It was about how to improve memory retention. He refers to research by Rodigger.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions 2011 #LCBQ

Tony Karrer

The answer is simple: Information Overload provides inherent opportunity for curation. A great diagram is in Information Overload Paradox : The post talks about the issue of overload: I can certainly consume more content than I could two decades ago, but no matter how much content is available, I can’t consume much more.

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Top 75 eLearning Posts - May 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Charles Jennings argues that the adage ‘access to knowledge is power’ is more fitting in today’s information-swamped world. Information overload is more serious than ever.&#. And the single biggest reason is Captivate 4 voices. The NeoSpeech text-to-speech (TTS) feature really touched a chord.