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Why A Micro Content Strategy Works And How Brain Science Supports This Learning Method

eLearning Industry

Microlearning ties into the wiring and function of the human brain. This article examines the connections between MicroLearning, brain science, attention spans, and Just-In-Time delivery. No matter the various learning styles and preferences, learning in smaller bites works.

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Writing Process from Brain Dump to Storyboard

Experiencing eLearning

Specifically, she wanted to know how I get from content like a SME “brain dump” to a finalized storyboard that’s ready for elearning development. Sometimes, a SME writes some sort of “brain dump” of what they know and think is important. Last week, an ID asked me about my writing process.

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eLearning & Training: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

" In their excellent article,  The 'Change-Up' in Lectures , Middendorf and Kalish found that after three to five minutes of 'settling down' at the start of class, a lapse of attention usually occurred 10 to 18 minutes later. In her article,  Keeping Pace with Today's Quick Brains ,  Kathie F.

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Best Practices to Ensure Successful Custom e-Learning Development

Infopro Learning

This article will dig deeper into the various pointers to consider when customizing content for e-learning. Besides, easy-to-understand language and breaking up the modules into small chapters make it easy to learn the concepts and retain the same in their brains for a long time. billion in 2017 and is expected to reach $49.87

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Games for Learning, Video Captions: ID Links 12/14/21

Experiencing eLearning

This post includes links on games for learning, video captions, and how to handle “pick your brain” requests. “Pick your brain” requests. How to manage “Can I pick your brain?” This article also includes ideas on how to make better requests, and that’s what’s probably most helpful here.

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Visuals and Visual Thinking

Association eLearning

And there are lots of articles floating around that discuss how much faster the human brain can supposedly process images than it can process words. Logos, billboards, icons, infographics, memes, and other visuals are everywhere. A picture is supposedly worth a thousand words. tldr” (too long, didn’t read) is an all too common acronym.

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What Does Your Brain Learn from Multi-tasking?

Learningtogo

Neuroscience has discovered what psychology long suspected – our brain doesn’t really perform multiple cognitive tasks at the same time. Repeated multi-tasking could even be causing physical damage to your brain. It turns out that our brain actually is working against itself in this case. Sadly, our brains sometime lie to us.

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