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Don’t Just Tell, Show: the Value of Examples

Association eLearning

Suddenly the children start paying attention and even send thank you notes. That is what got his audiences’ attention. Examples get people’s attention and are also fantastic memory aids. Perhaps your association has best practices, regulations, or new techniques you’d like your members to follow. Include testimonials.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Describing What You Do: Instructional Design

Learning Visions

Then again, people tend to associate or accommodate for new knowledge right? If I see they still have that blank look in their eyes, I quickly mention the names of some of my clients and that usually gets there attention enough to explain further. Instructional Designer just sounds too vague/technical. 10:19 AM Cammy Bean said.

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Dense eLearning Isn’t Smart

Association eLearning

A ten screen course may sound inviting, but if each screen has five minutes of audio narration and extensive on-screen text with images you may be looking at fifty screens of content crammed into ten. Use them to draw attention to key information and “build” visual content a little bit at a time.

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Visuals and Visual Thinking

Association eLearning

And something that looks good is going to get more attention than something that looks sloppy or complicated. Sound tricky? What’s so great about visuals and how can they help you broaden the way you think? Why People Like Visuals. Visual Appeal. Let’s get the obvious one out of the way, pictures are pretty.

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What Can eLearning Learn from “7 Ways Video Games Reward the Brain?”

Integrated Learnings

It sounded like a great source of inspiration for eLearning design.so He goes on to explain how dopamine, the neurotransmitter associated with reward-seeking behavior, is linked to learning. Bozarth explains how surprises grab our attention and make content memorable. 6-- Windows of enhanced attention. By Shelley A.

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eLearning Pet Peeves

Association eLearning

If something is interesting people will choose to pay attention to it because, well, it interests them! Examples : Audio levels are too high or too low, the sound quality is bad, the narrator is monotoned, or the narration itself is dull or unnatural sounding. Their audio sounds terrible. Poor Audio.

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Ian Bogost, #DevLearn “The Real Power of Games for Learning”

Learning Visions

We associate games with childrens’ culture – with sloth – “isn’t there something better you should be doing with your time?”. Gamification” as a word is brilliant because it makes the process sound easy. Makes it sound so simple: “We can just gamify this…”, “Insert coin to gamify your business.”. Like Civ or SimCity.

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