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Is AI in Learning and Development Fast-Tracking Dull Training, Especially eLearning Narration?

IT Training Department Blog

Imagine sitting through a training session where every voice and every module sounds eerily similaruniform, impersonal, lacking the dynamism that sparks curiosity and engagement. Using AI in eLearning narration may result in a homogenized experience where every module sounds similar. But at what expense?

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Should We List the Learning Objectives?

Experiencing eLearning

Thalheimer cites research on how objectives can help learners focus their attention. They do work to focus attention on what’s critical…and anything we don’t say is critical will be less likely to be learned and remembered. They help learners use their limited attention to meet the goals.

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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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Two Tips for Writing Dialogue (With Examples!)

Experiencing eLearning

Follow these tips for writing dialogue that feels realistic to your learners and holds their attention. Does that sound natural? It sounds more like how people talk. Two tactics you can use to improve your dialogue writing are using contractions and showing rather than telling. Do you hear the difference? Oliver shakes his head.

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7 Benefits of E-Learning Videos

LearnDash

A well-executed video has the power to keep the audience’s attention to the end. Motion and sound are two concepts that the human mind is hardwired to pay attention to. When you’re speaking to the camera and addressing the audience, you can help develop a connection that makes them pay attention.

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Focus on What’s Important for Learning

Experiencing eLearning

Learners pay attention to the irrelevant, seductive details and connect those details to their own prior knowledge. The coherence principle: using gratuitous visuals, text, and sounds can hurt learning. If that extra information is interesting, you might think there’s no harm in including it. Determine What’s Important.

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Five competences to develop to facilitate hybrid sessions

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The facililtator must divide attention across the room and online. You have to pay more attention to the chat and the screen and multitasking. Perhaps the sound not 100%. Pay attention to the nitty gritty. Is the sound still good? You want to use the chat but that produces a ping sound, annoying people.

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