eLearning Industry

OCTOBER 11, 2024

As an Instructional Designer, it's important to learn the principles of cognitive science and see how they can be used to create courses that capture learners' attention and interest. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 2, 2024

Compelling Narratives: Delve into the significance of storytelling within scenarios, emphasizing the inclusion of characters, conflict, and consequences to evoke cognitive and emotional engagement.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The Cognitive Accessibility Guidance identifies eight objectives to reduce barriers for people with cognitive, intellectual, and learning disabilities, as well as neurodivergent (or neurologically different) individuals. Cognitive Accessibility Guidance The Cognitive Accessibility Guidance is organized under eight objectives.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Games help in development of cognitive ability. For example, a simulated game that has engineer trainees repairing different machineries that get more complex as they complete each level, will ultimately develop their cognitive ability in that area. Thus, games increase learning motivation. Practice makes a man perfect, doesn’t it?

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InSync Training

MARCH 7, 2017

When designing learning for virtual classrooms or a blended learning program, one of your primary missions is to capture and maintain the attention of your learners. This can be challenging in a space that is still new to many learners.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 12, 2022

As context, one perspective from cognitive science is thinking of our ourselves as comprised of three components. One is cognitive, that is what we think and know. We address the cognitive, and there’s little to do on the affective side, but we too often basically assume that the learner is ready for what we’re presenting.

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Clark Quinn

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

All the implications have been previously documented from learning science research at the cognitive or social level. Neuroscience is cool, but its use in learning design tends to be to draw attention (read: marketing), not for any new outcomes. I feel similarly about the term brain-based. Yes, learning is brain-based.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This emotional facilitation of memory appears to result from a prioritizing of emotional material when it comes to attention and perception (Brosch, Pourtois, & Sander, 2010 ), with personal relevance playing a key role (Levine & Edelstein, 2009 ). We all have memories that are strong because of how they made you feel.

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IT Training Department Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Human narrators can infuse emotions, intonations, and nuances into their delivery, capturing people’s attention and creating a connection. In corporate training, storytelling is crucial in capturing attention and facilitating retention.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 8, 2020

I think the care is cognitive science: how we process information. While there are neural underpinnings, most of the results and prescriptions operate at the cognitive level, or above. Within the information processing cycle we cover core processes like attention, elaboration, and retrieval. This is our core mental architecture.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 9, 2021

And I think there are times when these are not just engaging, but cognitively important. Cognitively, a diagram can be overwhelming if there are too many elements. By starting at one point, and gradually adding in other elements, you can prevent cognitive overload. I think we could use them more, but that’s another reflection.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2022

However, there’s been too little attention. Overall, it’s too easy to focus purely on the cognitive. Even before we open them up cognitively (though, of course, they’re linked)! In principle, I think it’s the engagement part that separates the two. True, proper ID shouldn’t ignore it.

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Learnnovators

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

It also involves designing content with clear language, readable fonts, and color-contrast settings to improve accessibility for those with cognitive differences. Pay attention to participation rates and completion data to see if certain groups are facing barriers.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 27, 2014

If you want to have effective learning engagement, in gamification or any type of learning, you need to consider carefully how to grab and hold the learner’s attention. Mode 1: Cognitive interactivity or interpretative participation. You need to develop approaches to engage the student. References: Gibson, J.T., Reigeluth, A.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Cognitive - Try to gain an understanding into the mental processes like attention span, short & long term memory, and perception bias. Reading Patterns - Pay attention to where you place important learning content within the course. Certain areas of the screen capture the attention of a users better than others.

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Experiencing eLearning

JULY 2, 2024

Unlike content safety or PII defects which have a lot of attention and thus seldom occur, factual inconsistencies are stubbornly persistent and more challenging to detect. Neuroscience myths 25 Neuroscience Myths Lots of myths from pop psychology about neuroscience (plus a few from cognitive psychology or other non-neuro fields).

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

There are four elements to motivating eLearning course learners: gaining attention, making it relevant, developing confidence and attaining satisfaction. A framework for developing learning outcomes which vary in cognitive complexity under the skills of recall, understand, apply, analyse, evaluate, and create. C Cognitive Load.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 28, 2020

Shortened to be appropriate for millennials or the attention span of a goldfish. Mythless learning design may use small amounts of content, but because minimalism keeps cognitive load in check, not because our attention span has changed. Let me lay out a little of what mythless learning design is, or should be.

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EduPivot Knowledge Center

APRIL 10, 2025

Instead of training design with controlled stress to heighten attention and improve memory formation, many learning professionals default to overly simplified approaches that priortize comfort over cognitive engagement. Real-world simulation training naturally introduces the type of stress that focuses attention and boosts retention.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Draw their attention toward important details. Checklists as an occupational tool originated in industries where lack of attention to detail could result in a critical failure. A good checklist should be a cognitive aid—not a source of stress. A good checklist can: Help a learner complete necessary tasks.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

” It’s a deliberately provocative title, meant to draw attention and cause controversy. A more accurate title would be “Some Games Aren’t Effective at Making People Remember Content,” but that’s a lot less likely to grab attention. By requiring learners to explore (or slog though, in my opinion!)

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 4, 2011

Starts as you are patrolling a street and you have to identify what to pay attention to (graffiti etc.) What other designs match cognitive needs? Lots of content embedded in the resources of the game, but you don’t have to go through it in a linear order. World is compelling because of risk.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2024

That includes our cognitive resources, and job aids provide this support. What job aids do is tap into ‘distributed cognition’, whereby our thinking isn’t just in our heads, but is distributed around the world. Cognitive Gap Rossett & Schafer posit two different types of aids, planners and sidekicks.

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

With increased insights coming from the field of neuroscience, there’s been a heightened interest in understanding how music affects our cognitive processes. It is likely that forcing the brain to decipher the lyrics may create too much cognitive load. Music helps you focus. Music prevents employee stress and burnout. But watch out!

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Instancy

APRIL 27, 2025

Subject matter experts (SMEs) often provide comprehensive content, but simply displaying pages of text on the screen leads to cognitive overload, low engagement, and poor retention. Use visual cues (bold, color, callouts) to draw attention to essential points, but avoid overusing emphasis to prevent clutter.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 17, 2023

Cognitive science is a branch of psychology that attempts to explain human behavior by understanding how we think. Like cosmology, quantum physics , and many other branches of science, cognitive psychology employs models to describe something that can’t be directly observed.

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LearnDash

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Much of cognitive learning theory focuses on the mechanics of memory and the mapping of new information to preexisting mental schema. An online instructor leading a humanist course would need to focus a lot of attention on the learner’s emotional needs.

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Learningtogo

JANUARY 19, 2017

Coloring has been used as therapy for adults for decades and has been shown effective in reducing stress, treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and helping people on the autism spectrum express their feelings and relate to the outside world.

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Learningtogo

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Playing a musical instrument enhances key cognitive functions, including problem-solving, memory, planning, attention to detail and emotional intelligence. Neuroplasticity teaches us that it is never too late in life to take up a musical instrument, and the cognitive benefits could be substantial.

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Origin Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Little acts of acknowledgement like paying attention to them or thanking them for bringing up a point can do a lot to boost their confidence and increase their participation. Intangibility. Social learning is more of an abstract concept.

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 12, 2020

Their cognitive architecture isn’t fundamentally different; evolution doesn’t work that fast. Let’s focus on design that addresses capturing and maintaining attention and motivation, and communicating in clear and compelling ways. ” What’s different for these learners?

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ReadyTech

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Cognitive load theory has some answers. Plus, our brains can get overwhelmed by too much information (or “cognitive overload”). Cognitive Load Theory: Understanding How Much We Can Handle Cognitive load theory explains that our brains have a limited capacity for processing information. Let’s break it down.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 24, 2020

It’s like the claim that we’ve dropped to the ‘attention span of a goldfish’ to argue for shorter ads, learning, etc. First, how do you measure the attention span of a goldfish? More importantly, how would we evolutionarily change our cognitive architecture in the span of a few years? Yeah, that.).

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 10, 2021

The first one is pretty blatant: There are numerous resources that suggest our attention spans are shrinking. Some might even claim we now have an average attention span of only 8 seconds, which equals that of a goldfish. This gets worse in the other post. There were two things wrong here. With citations.) Caveat emptor.

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WhatFix

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Employee Training Cognitive Learning: History, Functions, Benefits, Applications Published: October 3, 2024 Updated: October 3, 2024 Samantha Rohn Throughout our lives, we constantly learn new things, whether learning to read as a child or expanding arsenals of professional skills as adults. What Is Cognitive Learning?

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Clark Quinn

AUGUST 13, 2019

And it’s useful to review why, particularly in the current climate of increasing interest in AI and cognitive science. So there’s a link between sub-symbolic and situated cognition. The prevailing model, starting with the cognitive revolution which arguably began in 1956 (an auspicious year ;) was a formal logical one.

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Infopro Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A digitally-oriented, company-wide training initiative needs the attention of the C-Suite to ensure effortless execution and actual results. Top-level attention will influence how managers and employees approach each program, resulting in increased involvement and interest. It goes beyond just signing the paperwork.

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