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Game Element: Fantasy

Kapp Notes

In fact, research indicates that fantasy provides cognitive emotional and motivational advantages for learning (Malone, 1981). In terms of the cognitive benefits, the issues confronted and successfully resolved in the fantasy world provide the learners with natural constructive feedback in an uninhibited interaction. 5(4), 289-309.

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Getting Into the Flow: How Casual Games Increase Learning Engagement

Axonify

A poll by the Gallup organization estimates that in 2015, “the majority (50.8%) of employees were ‘not engaged,’ while another 17.2% References: Cahill, L., & McGaugh, J. Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory. Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory. People are more disengaged than ever.

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Broad and Deep Instructional Design Skills

Experiencing eLearning

Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. Nearly 16% of respondents in the eLearning Guild’s 2015 salary report identified their job as “do a lot/little of everything.” How much project management falls under the role of instructional designer?

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3 Ages of the Brain Under the Microscope of Neuroscience

KnowledgeOne

The driving force behind this dynamic process is a cognitive activity, particularly learning. Thus, even in adulthood, learning would be the best way to improve or maintain our cognitive abilities or slow down their decline. Automation and cognitive inhibition. Neural recycling. Adolescence: Full power, but lack of control.

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Deeper eLearning Design: Part 4 – Examples

Learnnovators

The example needs to refer to the concept in the ways the concept was presented, explicitly. Too often, experts ignore this, as they don’t actually have access to all their thinking (another phenomenon of our cognitive architecture). Published on 06-Jul-2015. Deeper eLearning Design: Part 5 – Emotion.

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“Digital Mindset”: What Is It All About?

Learnnovators

I often refer to this sense-making model because it provides a simple yet powerful heuristic for evaluating where we stand in relation to other contexts. I have included the diagram below for reference: When we operate in the Complex zone, we can only connect cause and effect in hindsight. Published on 23-Sep-2015.

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Getting Into the Flow: How Casual Games Increase Learning Engagement

Axonify

A poll by the Gallup organization estimates that in 2015, “the majority (50.8%) of employees were ‘not engaged,’ while another 17.2% References: Cahill, L., & McGaugh, J. Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory. Cognitive and neural mechanisms of emotional memory. People are more disengaged than ever.

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