Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2019

Cognitive load, spacing effect, forgetting effect, worked examples, and more. Why didn’t fact quizzes improve higher order learning in the present study, as many cognitive scientists and educators contend? The post ID and eLearning Links 4/16/19 appeared first on Experiencing eLearning. Research Collections.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 12, 2020

Many of the tips could apply to any workplace training though, not just elearning for remote workers. My contribution to the post mentions three dimensions of engagement: behavioral, cognitive, and emotional (affective). Scenarios can be especially helpful in improving cognitive and emotional engagement.

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The Learning Dispatch

DECEMBER 6, 2018

This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. . Here’s what we’ll cover in this guide to accessible elearning: What Is Accessible Elearning, Anyway?

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2025

Though eLearning has been well accepted as a tool for technical training and compliance, its true potential lies untapped. Instead of relying solely on formal training sessions, companies must integrate AI-driven eLearning platforms that push real-time, microlearning updates.

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Provide cognitive support. How can you represent pedagogical agents in eLearning? Why should you invest time and money to incorporate pedagogical agents into your elearning? Agents Need Realistic Human-Like Behavior. They: Act as instructors or motivators. Interact with learners. Provide human-like assistance.

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Ninja Tropic

APRIL 2, 2025

Before developing eLearning, define what you want to achieve. These competencies can be divided into two main categories: technical competencies and behavioral competencies. Behavioral competencies include the interpersonal skills and attributes that facilitate effective interaction and collaboration with others.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 28, 2024

PowerPoint design tips Cognitive Load, Student Attention and PowerPoint Presentations Results of an eyetracking study of PowerPoint slides with tips on how to design slides so the information attracts attention and is easy to scan. For translating elearning, that means we have to keep in mind the extra space needed when we design.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This post includes links on scenario-based learning (SBL) research, working with Twine, learning experience design (LXD), 360 images, VR resources, and elearning development time calculators. This issue summarizes a study comparing in-class scenario-based learning to scenario-based elearning. eLearning development calculators.

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eLearning Brothers

JUNE 20, 2018

When I’ve attended eLearning conferences and workshops, one thing I’ve noticed is that instructional designers are always hungry for more research and knowledge on how people learn and what they can do to help them learn better. That’s where eLearning Rockstar Marty Rosenheck comes in. Realities 360 | San Jose, California.

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The Learning Dispatch

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This “Training Manager’s Guide to Accessible Elearning” provides practical steps for ensuring your online training fosters a welcoming experience for all of your learners, whether they are team members, clients, or the public. . Here’s what we’ll cover in this accessible elearning guide: What Is Accessible Elearning, Anyway?

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 17, 2020

eLearning Guild research report: Using Stories for Learning). You might also like… All of my posts on storytelling and scenarios A range of options for storytelling and scenarios Learner engagement: Behavioral, cognitive, and affective. We remember stories better than abstract content.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

For some, the challenge is one of engagement; learners are tired of traditional eLearning and programs are seeing diminishing returns. Large enterprises need to… …fight learner fatigue from existing eLearning programs. Serious games work by unifying the cognitive and affective domains. The Benefits of Serious Games.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 8, 2020

If you have several desired behaviors or skills, is it better to use one large branching scenario or break it into several smaller scenarios? Reducing cognitive load. Scenarios can be fairly taxing on cognitive load. Providing several shorter scenarios can help reduce the cognitive load.

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LearnDash

JUNE 10, 2013

This example demonstrates that gaming has a profound impact on cognitive abilities, which is the primary reason why we are seeing games supplement elearning today. The proof is there when it comes to gaming and the positive impacts it can have on our brains, learning comprehension, and translating that learning into real behaviors.

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ProProfs

OCTOBER 23, 2017

This leads us to the theory by psychologist Albert Bandura known as the ‘Social Cognitive Theory’. What is Social Cognitive Theory? The theory throws light on how when people see a model performing a specific behavior, based on their observation they use this information to guide subsequent behaviors.

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

Session 602 Set the Stage: Make eLearning Relevant and Authentic with Scenarios. In this session, you’ll learn how to create relevant and authentic scenarios to enhance your eLearning and improve performance. You’ll leave this session with an approach to weaving different aspects of scenarios together to bring your eLearning to life.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

This is one of the sessions in the eLearning Guild’s Making Learning Stick Online Conference. Elearning can also be shallow and too focused on remembering content, without opportunities to practice new skills. Using scenarios can make your elearning more engaging and relevant. I’ll post about this later.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 13, 2019

Engagement can be cognitive, behavioral, or emotional. The post ID and eLearning Links 8/13/19 appeared first on Experiencing eLearning. Additional resources at go.osu.edu/disengaged tags: research learning education e-learning training engagement. Research: Learning Science, Growth Mindset, and Taking Notes.

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Hurix Digital

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

This approach to learning distinguishes itself from cognitive and behavioral theories by adopting a more comprehensive viewpoint. It acknowledges that learning is influenced by various factors encompassing our emotions, cognitive processes, and the environment in which we find ourselves.

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Upside Learning

JULY 7, 2011

Storytelling and making are engaging, interactive and social behaviors, we can participate in such by elaborating and refining the characters, narrative, and event time-line as we go along. The use of stories and metaphor definitely play an active role in human cognition and learning. What do you think?

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Convergence Training

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In this Instructional Design Basics article, we’re going to look at the issue of cognitive load. We’ve explained the cognitive psychology model of how we process new information, learn, and develop skills more fully in this article on How We Learn , but let’s go over the highlights in brief. What Is Cognitive Load?

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2012

Of late, I’ve been both reviewing eLearning, and designing processes & templates. As I’ve said before , the nuances between well-designed and well produced eLearning are subtle, but important. Rote knowledge dump and test reliably lead to no meaningful behavior change.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

Before I continue, I want to say that I enjoyed her book, eLearning and the Science of Instruction , and I have found some of the research there valuable. One of the benefits of games for learning is application and behavior change, something this research didn’t measure. I respect her past contributions to the field.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 23, 2013

This are my liveblogged notes from Julie Dirksen''s (@ usablelearning ) session at the eLearning Guild DevLearn Conference , happening this week in Las Vegas. The purpose of good interface design: makes it usable, keeps the user from getting frustrated, making the interface invisible -- it needs to reduce your cognitive load.

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Learning Visions

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Hyperbolic discounting -- behavioral economics. Higher cognitive load in one group vs. the other who had easy math tasks. Higher cognitive load in one group vs. the other who had easy math tasks. When we ask people to concentrate and use cognitive resources, it has an impact on will power. Ten today or 1,000 in a year?)

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Tim Slade

JUNE 8, 2019

Should it be an eLearning course or instructor-led training? Here’s the thing, I’ve always believed that learning isn’t a single event that occurs while seated in a classroom or behind the screen of an eLearning course. Should it be a how-to video or job aid? Why don’t we try designing blended learning?

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eLearning Industry

AUGUST 31, 2022

This Trailblazers List features thought leaders who help us to dive into the cognitive processes and behaviors that shape learning science. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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ProProfs

JANUARY 6, 2022

Corporate eLearning has grown by an impressive 900% in the last 16 years. The global eLearning market is projected to reach $325 billion by 2025. These numbers indicate only one thing – the eLearning industry is only gaining ground with time. As a matter of fact, adopting eLearning software is inevitable for businesses.

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Kapp Notes

JUNE 13, 2013

A Meta-Analysis of the Cognitive and Motivational Effects of Serious Games. Also referenced was research about games and cognition supported by a grant from DSO National Laboratories , Singapore. Patterson, Enhancing Cognition with Video Games: A Multiple Game Training Study, PLoS ONE, 2013, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058546

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 4, 2011

You assess risks based on employee behavior, prioritize threats. What other designs match cognitive needs? Good games don’t tell you if you’re succeeding or failing, you see it by the consequences of choices. This example is in one of the Michael Allen books; I remember reading about it but not which book.

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EduPivot Knowledge Center

APRIL 10, 2025

Dodson, established a now-famous principle in behavior psychology: memory and performance increase with arousal (stress), up to a certain point. Too much stress can hinder learning and result in cognitive overload, which is why its important to design training with controlled or positive stress in mind. Yerkes and John D.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

Influence and Inspire: A New Approach to Behavioral Dynamics Tali Sharot This was the second keynote of Day 1 of the conference. She spoke about cognitive biases and ways to counteract them or use them to your advantage. Meaning-making separates storytelling from just telling stories.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Time may actually decrease learners’ motivation to be truly cognitively engaged with the learning experience. Depending on your audience, adding timers may prevent some learners from being successful in your elearning courses, even if they could do the real task (like having a conversation) without problem. Accessibility.

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Kapp Notes

MAY 18, 2012

There is a healthy discussion on the eLearning Guild’s LinkedIn group. 6) [and]… The second “claim,” that games enhance cognitive learning, continues to be supported. The second “claim,” that games enhance cognitive learning, continues to be supported. ok, so its mild name calling, but still….).

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Clarity Consultants

MAY 1, 2025

They check all the boxes for compliance-ready, LMS-integrated, and SCORM-compliant but still fall flat regarding what matters: behavior change, learner engagement, and real-world performance. It aligns your business goals with learners’ needs, behaviors, and motivations. Some corporate training programs are beautiful failures.

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eLearning Industry

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

L&D professionals can enhance training effectiveness by leveraging behavioral science. Strategies include reducing cognitive load, fostering motivation, reinforcing retention through spaced repetition, minimizing friction, and aligning training with real-world application. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Clark Quinn

JULY 31, 2018

Michael Allen’s Guide to eLearning. Ruth Clark’s eLearning & The Science of Instruction (with Dick Mayer) and/or Efficiency in Learning with Sweller & Nguyen). Performance Ecosystem: Marc Rosenberg’s Beyond eLearning (the start), and/or my Revolutionize Learning & Development.

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