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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | October 2, 2020

Mike Taylor

The Myths of the Digital Native and the Multitasker. It then proceeds to present evidence that one of the alleged abilities of students in this generation, the ability to multitask, does not exist and that designing education that assumes the presence of this ability hinders rather than helps learning.

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Friday Finds: The Best Of Learning, Design & Technology | April 29, 2022

Mike Taylor

Multitasking is the enemy of a focused attentional system. Follow me on Twitter and LinkedIn. It is internet radio designed to help you focus while you work. Last week’s most clicked item: 20 Googling Tricks 99% of People Don’t Know About. The History of Cognitive Load. You can send them here to sign up. Looking for a previous edition?

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5 Ways to Improve Medical Continuing Education Courses

EthosCE

Are you also dealing with limited resources, so you end up multitasking and spreading yourself thin? After viewing podcasts or webinars, discussions can promote additional learning. Bring in social media. Studies show that 31% of clinicians use social media for professional networking.

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Attention span in e-learning courses: how long should they be?

isEazy

In addition, if you are a regular at this type of talks, you will know that Chris Anderson said in one of them: “Eighteen minutes is long enough to be serious and short enough to get people’s attention” Eighteen minutes, it’s also the time we can squeeze in while having a coffee or multitasking.

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Uses for Audio in eLearning

Integrated Learnings

Since I didn’t need the visuals to understand the audio, I decided to listen to the course like a podcast while glancing at email and other stuff. Eventually, I got further sucked into the multitasking and found myself half-listening to the course (at best). You might also be interested in our page on Facebook or Twitter feed.

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Camtasia - LMS - LCMS - Best of eLearning Learning August 2009

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Software Adoption - eLearning Technology , August 10, 2009. A challenge to the multitask assumption - Clive on Learning , August 27, 2009. Podcasting for E-Learning: Introduction to Audio Production - The E-Learning Curve , August 11, 2009. The following are the top items based on social signals. Other Sources.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | November 9, 2018

Mike Taylor

Josh Bersin ( @joshbesin ) gave this research-based presentation at LinkedIn’s Talent Connect Conference. He talks about a new learning model driven by machine intelligence, micro-learning, and new video and social platforms like LinkedIn Learning that are helping companies upskill and transform their workforces.