ReadyTech

MARCH 6, 2025

In a world where people are more distracted than everthanks to pings, emails, and endless online contentcapturing learners full attention can feel like an uphill battle. According to psychology studies, attention spans wane quickly when learners feel disconnected from the group or overwhelmed by content.

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Elucidat

MAY 21, 2025

Attention spans are shorter. He pioneered the forgetting curve , illustrating how much information the brain can retain over time. Compliance training often gets treated as a checkbox exercise, but it shouldnt be. Its the go-to approach for delivering results without the overload. Why microlearning? Workforces are busy.

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Hurix Digital

MAY 7, 2025

You can also incorporate activities like quizzes or coding exercises to reinforce learning. Visual elements within game-based applications sustain student attention and support information processing, contributing to improved memory and abstract concept understanding.

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LifterLMS

APRIL 13, 2025

So take them through exercises around identifying those beliefs that are not useful. It’s short bits of content, five to 10 minutes long maximum because short attention spans so that’s been really. And it was literally started off as a brain dump of this is the questions that students would ask about.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A revised workflow that works with my brain instead of against it. Practice Deep Work: With our attention being diverted by constant notifications, deep work has become a superpower. My own breakthrough came when I stopped seeing my tendency to get distracted as a character flaw and started treating it as a workflow challenge.

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Nick Leffler

APRIL 21, 2015

Attentions spans are shrinking, nobody can pay attention for more than a few seconds. Just to clear things up, an attention span is that thing that allows us to pay attention to something. You know, when something captures our attention because it’s so incredibly interesting and we can’t turn away.

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Origin Learning

AUGUST 28, 2014

There is a plethora of online games out there that promise to make you more intelligent if you signup with them and follow a disciplined brain-training regime. The game starts with a basic free version that assigns you a daily brain workout by letting you play 3 games each day. Why not try Lumosity and see how it works for you?

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eFront

JUNE 15, 2017

For some people Artificial Intelligence translates to “thinking machines”: digital or software based “brains” that are capable of human-like reasoning. So what does that mean for corporate training? We’ll find out, but first…. A (side)note on terminology. Kind of like eFrontPro’s existing Skills-Gap testing feature, but on steroids.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Let's start with attention. How long is the avg attention span? But there's really not a practical limit to our attention span if we WANT to pay attention. You have a rider -- the conscious, verbal thinking brain -- and the elephant -- the automatic, emotional, visceral brain. I know I should exercise, but.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2024

Unlike content safety or PII defects which have a lot of attention and thus seldom occur, factual inconsistencies are stubbornly persistent and more challenging to detect. From the “Double Your Freelancing” newsletter, a simple exercise for identifying what strategies work for finding clients, even if you’re brand new.

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SHIFT eLearning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

There is a simple way to design effective eLearning courses about any subject: brain-based learning. This instructional approach was defined by Hileman in 2006 and has since inspired many “brain compatible designers” — those who seek to understand the principle and reasoning behind their teaching. B: Brain’s Time Clock.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For most of us, our brains are highly efficient forgetting machines. The simplest way to convince our brains that information is important is to reinforce it through repetition. Again: our brains are designed to forget irrelevant information. We need this, because otherwise we would retain too much unnecessary information.

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Learning Visions

MAY 24, 2007

Thursday, May 24, 2007 Brain Plasticity & Cognitive Abilities Ive just read Richard Nantels post The Ultimate Pretest in which he talks about his interest in brain plasticity. Scientists are finding ways to change the brain through intellectual exercises. Havent yet read that brain plasticity book , but its on my list.

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Learning Rebels

MAY 6, 2020

What you can do to create an engaging virtual session : Plan pre-session engagement: For people who tune in early, have exercises, polls, and word puzzles programmed on a loop. The host is competing for attention with everything else going on around the participants and on their screen.

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Clark Quinn

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

App use is one of the tools we have to accessorize our brains. I also deliberately will queue up a problem I’m working on before I start exercising or taking a shower, and see if I can’t come up with some new ideas. And I use apps to try to find the best places to eat in airports and around wherever I’m staying.

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Making Change

AUGUST 26, 2014

The extreme control exercised by the designer could actually be useful in the following conditions: The people playing the scenario are beginners in the subject matter AND. Shows the learner through their mistakes that they need to learn this stuff, making them pay more attention to the information that follows.

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Take an e-Learning Break

JANUARY 8, 2009

These are great - and they may spark some ideas for your own interactive exercises. link] [link] [link] Lunar Tunes is an exercise that will test your auditory and visual-spatial memory. link] Hoop Nut is an exercise that will test your auditory processing speed and ability to focus your attention. Tags: brain.

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Learning Visions

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

People don’t pay attention to boring things.” Let’s you see what each other is all about… As a follow up exercise, add a soundtrack (a playlist) for each of the images…what’s the slogan – ways to extend the exercise without starting from scratch every time. Especially on the corporate front – fun seen as a waste.

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Learningtogo

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Today we see nudge theory employed in self-improvement mobile apps that help us lose weight , exercise more , plan for our retirement , improve our credit scores , or learn a new language. Our brains are programmed to reinforce new learning pathways that are visited repeatedly, while forgetting those that occur infrequently.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Here are my session recaps from two days at ATDTK23: TUESDAY – February 6, 2023 Opening Keynote – Limitless: Supercharge Your Brain to Learn Faster and Remember More (Jim Kwik) Touted as a “world-renowned brain coach”, Jim Kwik is on a mission to help people get more out of learning and productivity. E = Exercise. F = Forget.

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Elucidat

MAY 23, 2018

What does it take to make brain-friendly learning? Stella offers six key ways you can work with the brain to help make learning stick, all wrapped up in the useful (and brain friendly) acronym: LEARNS. Learning design: meet brain science. It’s basic brain science. But why does the brain need them?

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CLO Magazine

JULY 26, 2016

In case you needed one, here’s another reason to exercise: a July study says mental and physical training can improve how your brain works. The cognitive training group received Strategic Memory Advanced Reasoning Training, which focused on attention, integrative reasoning and innovation. The exercise part?

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Integrated Learnings

JANUARY 26, 2010

Cognitive theorists suggest that at the start of a course, there is not yet a lot of information being processed in working memory, thus allowing the brain to process and remember that early information more easily. Instead, the course should start with a clever attention-getter that previews some of the key content.

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CLO Magazine

APRIL 6, 2017

When the brain learns, it acquires information through a person’s various senses, and this information travels along the synapses to the short-term memory. But only in roughly the past decade have conversations on how the brain learns appeared in talent management circles. This process is certain. “The

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Integrated Learnings

APRIL 25, 2012

Over the past several years, sleep researchers and neuroscientists have studied a process called memory consolidation, in which our brains integrate newly learned knowledge into long-term memory. This can benefit attention spans, too. Studies of memory consolidation and sleep. We know that repeated practice benefits learning.

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KnowledgeOne

MAY 24, 2023

Neuroscience has made remarkable advances in unravelling the mysteries of the human brain. As our understanding of how the brain functions expands, so does our ability to apply this knowledge to various fields, particularly education. Here are five teaching strategies backed by neuroscience that can enhance learning experiences.

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Knowledge Guru

JULY 16, 2014

They probably dread taking it and also give as little brain power as possible to this exercise. If you want to capture their attention and believe your safety information is important, you need a fresh approach. Employees may have seen the same old policies year after year as part of a required refresher course.

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CourseArc

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

As it turns out, the answer is a decisive “no,” because that’s not how human brains are wired. After all, there’s only so much available space in our mental hard drives, so our brains are optimized to quickly recall what repetition and habit have proven to be “important” while everything else that seems less essential gets pushed aside.

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Clive on Learning

MARCH 11, 2009

John is a developmental molecular biologist (whatever that means) and serious about distinguishing brain myths from brain facts, so I've got some confidence in his work. Rule 1: Exercise boosts brain power You'll have to get used to the fact that John's rules aren't really rules at all, they're assertions.

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Learning Rebels

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

They completed the group think exercise perfectly, had fun and learned something. It not about attention, it’s about interest. There is a research paper out there, about how people surf the internet, which has been widely and wildly misinterpreted about how adults have shorter attention spans due to technology. Absolutely.

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Training Industry

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This study threw light on the subject of brain training to increase mental ability. To yield better productivity, it is important that the learner’s brain is capable of grasping, interpreting and recalling all essential work information. Here are some ways to train your employees’ brains. According to Lawrence C.

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CLO Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2022

” “Action closes the learning circle and reconnects the processing inside the brain with the world.” — David Kolb. Emotion creates attention.” — David Kolb. Factors that play a positive role in plasticity and neurogenesis are sleep, nutrition, exercise and happiness (through the release of dopamine).

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CourseArc

JUNE 28, 2017

Our brains are impressive computers, but they only have so much available memory, so every new piece of information we encounter is viewed through a relevance filter — the equivalent of our brain asking, “do I need to remember this” or “will this be on the test?”

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Gyrus

JULY 12, 2016

However, their effectiveness is often debated in the educational software community, as not all eLearnings are made with the same attention to detail. These touches will only increase the drive to accomplish the entirety of the learning exercise, as well as aid in. Interactive. I like to refer to this as the Sesame Street Rule.

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Litmos

JULY 19, 2018

Hire the heart and train the brain; this is an axiom that many of us have heard before. This means we must start paying attention and hire the heart and train the brain. . Here are some exercises to begin the process. The post Hire the heart and train the brain appeared first on Litmos. Moving forward.

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KnowledgeOne

APRIL 13, 2023

More recently, neuroscience has provided new keys to understanding the phenomenon based on the observation of its mechanisms in the brain. A) Before making an effort, the brain makes a cost-benefit assessment. B) In the brain, effort results in the activation of the prefrontal cortex. CORRECT ANSWER C. .”

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Learning Visions

MARCH 16, 2009

PowerPoint : Tom Kuhlman's got some great demos and exercises on his Rapid eLearning Blog, like this one on building an eLearning Template in PowerPoint. My attention has admittedly wandered to shinier, more gripping things. Revisiting Things don't seem to stick in my brain the way they used to. What are you looking at?

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