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The Sound of Silence | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS The Sound of Silence by Jim on April 7, 2011 in eLearning At what point does narration really add anything to an eLearning module, and at what point is it simply being added because “it’s what’s expected?” Why don’t we hear that?

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Does Your Brain Need Santa Claus?

Learningtogo

One key to understanding why magical thinking exists is to understand the brain’s capacity to predict future events based on past experience. The brain does this by paying attention to changes in the environment and linking current and past events together to build a reliable model of the world.

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Joining forces with the brain to deliver long term L&D impact

Elucidat

We’re all working against the brain, rather than with it. In fact, she thinks everyone should better understand their brain. Here are some top tips from Lauren: Work with the brain, not against it: Start focusing on what’s going on in the brain, so you can design learning more scientifically. The results?

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Multitasking Vs. Continuous Partial Attention

eLearningMind

What is Continuous Partial Attention (CPA)? Continuous Partial Attention (CPA) is an automatic process that enables people to simultaneously pay attention to several sources of information, whilst scanning for relevant information. What is the Difference between Multitasking and Continuous Partial Attention?

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Keeping Your Learners’ Attention: How Our Brain Decides What to Focus On

Learnkit

These thoughts can be true for some, but if elearning is presented effectively, with the learner’s attention span in mind, we can see a shift in this ideology. To curb learners from being distracted, elearning needs to be designed to grasp the learner’s attention. Attention is built on three components: memory, interest, and awareness.

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Coping with information

Clark Quinn

Dawson frames elements in terms of how our brain works, which makes sense. He suggests: having an initial purpose, understanding the connections, filtering what’s coming in, paying attention to what’s important, and synthesizing what’s seen. What isn’t happening is our brain’s architecture changing.

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