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Chemical Romance: Why Your Brain Falls in Love with Stories

eLearningMind

From the dawn of time—think cave paintings and oral traditions—to the modern methods of seeing a movie or being absorbed by a good book, the power of stories captivates, motivates, and creates a strong bond between memory and content. A good story lights up a specific part of your brain; specifically, the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala.

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Instructional Storytelling: How to Use it In Your Corporate Training

eLearningMind

It might sound familiar for your favorite novel or the last movie you saw, but what does this mean for your training materials? This journey elicits an Angel’s Cocktail of chemicals in your learner’s brains—dopamine, oxytocin, and endorphins—making the learning more meaningful and engaging.

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What Doesn’t Belong In Your XR Training Content

Roundtable Learning

We all have that friend who likes to talk during movies. By pairing animations with sound effects or narration, XR programs are more effective in illustrating concepts to learners. If you’ve ever touched a hot stovetop, we’ll bet your brain remembered not to make the same mistake. Learning the hard way has its perks.

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What can Hollywood teach you about making your Elearning AWESOME?

eLearning Brothers

Ever wondered why movies are so expensive? Ever sit through the credits at the end of a movie? We probably all have, now that every superhero movie puts a teaser at the end. Why do they need so many people doing so many “strange” jobs to make a movie? I’ve been working in movies and television for 2 decades.

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From the Silver Screen to Your eLearning

eLearning Brothers

Since I was little I have loved the movie theatre experience. The buttery smell of popcorn, the loud explode-y sounds that my living room could never replicate, and the spectacle of a giant screen with moving pictures on it. Some of my greatest movie memories have to do with the concessions I was munching on at the time.

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Activate the Braincells Through the Art of Storytelling

Magic EdTech

What comes to your mind when you hear words “movie”, “novel”, “theater” or an “advertisement”? All of us enjoy a good story, whether it’s a novel, a movie, a drama, an advertisement or something our friends/teachers/family members narrate to us. In fact, a story puts the whole brain to work.

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VARK Model In eLearning Gamification For Effective Corporate Virtual Training Solutions

Tesseract Learning

The graphic displays may include illustrations, graphs, diagrams, movies, videos, image-laden handouts, color-coded notes, and so on. Sounds improbable? VARK stands for Visual, Aural, Reading, and Kinesthetic. Let’s look into each of them. Visual learners understand and retain information best by seeing. Conclusion.