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Story Research, UX, Resumes: ID Links 1/20/22

Experiencing eLearning

Ask the Cognitive Scientist | American Federation of Teachers. An aesthetically pleasing design creates a positive response in people’s brains and leads them to believe the design actually works better. People are more tolerant of minor usability issues when the design of a product or service is aesthetically pleasing.

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Beyond Industrial Age Thinking

Clark Quinn

I’ve long maintained that our organizational practices are too often misaligned with how our brains really work. Yet, I realize that there may be another legacy, a cognitive one. We transitioned from a largely agricultural economy to a manufacturing economy, of goods and services. The premise comes from business.

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Learning Science Bandwagon?

Clark Quinn

All the implications have been previously documented from learning science research at the cognitive or social level. I feel similarly about the term brain-based. Yes, learning is brain-based. I suppose they’re implying that they’re aligned with how the brain works. Which is a good thing.

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Learning science again

Clark Quinn

In an earlier post, I made a defense of cognitive psychology (really, to me, cognitive science, a bigger umbrella). Learning science is an interdisciplinary field, including cognitive science, educational psychology, and more. We shouldn’t be using courses when job aids will suffice, as cognitive science tells us.

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Learning Design for Cognitive Accessibility

Scissortail's Learning Nest

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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eLearning: Want Learners to Retain Data? Reduce Anxiety

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

A quick Google search for "positive affect and cognitive process" will turn up countless scholarly articles and university articles on the subject. In summary: research shows that emotion has the ability to influence cognitive processes like problem solving and attention, among others. by AJ Walther.

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Performance Support and Bad Design

Clark Quinn

So here’s a cognitive story about when and where a job aid would help. Of course we could call a service person, but trying to be handy and frugal (and safe), we wanted to find out if it was something I could deal with. This violates what we know about our brains, in this case that our memory is limited. So, off to the manual.