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Why A Micro Content Strategy Works And How Brain Science Supports This Learning Method

eLearning Industry

Microlearning ties into the wiring and function of the human brain. This article examines the connections between MicroLearning, brain science, attention spans, and Just-In-Time delivery. This post was first published on eLearning Industry. No matter the various learning styles and preferences, learning in smaller bites works.

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Writing Process from Brain Dump to Storyboard

Experiencing eLearning

Specifically, she wanted to know how I get from content like a SME “brain dump” to a finalized storyboard that’s ready for elearning development. Sometimes, a SME writes some sort of “brain dump” of what they know and think is important. Last week, an ID asked me about my writing process.

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Neurolearning: How The Brain's Ancient Storytelling Circuits Drive eLearning Success

eLearning Industry

Digital learning often fails not because of technology but because it ignores how our brains naturally learn. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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

IT Training Department Blog

I’ll be looking at things from the perspective of narration for eLearning, which seems to be one of the biggest uses of AI that I’ve seen. Other big uses include creating images and scripts for eLearning. AI narration only helps eLearning, which already had poor narration and bad scripts to boot.

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Digital Learning Tips and Tricks from Neuroscience

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Chief Freedom Officer, Learningtogo

As an eLearning professional, you're always working to improve your courses; and part of that process involves a deluge of questions. Does digital media work differently in the brain than information coming in from "the real world?" How the regular use of social media as an information source impacts the brain.

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This is Your Brain on eLearning/Online Learning

TOPYX LMS

eLearning, also known as online learning, isn’t just good for a company’s bottom line; it is also excellent for the human brain. Any theory that learning primarily through a digital mode is unhealthy is being disproved as eLearning experts find that online learning nourishes the mind and results in much greater learning outcomes.

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Creating Better Content with Lessons Learned from Brain Research

CourseArc

from Brain Research. The brain is arguably one of the most complex organs of the body, and one we still do not fully understand. Understanding the brain helps us understand learning. What we know about how the brain functions has advanced by leaps and bounds since the 1990s (dubbed the Decade of the Brain by the U.S.

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From Surviving to Thriving: Returning to what science says about how we think, work, and learn

Speaker: Clark Quinn, Ph.D., Author and Executive Director of Quinnovation

Being forced to distance, we took emergency steps to build mechanisms that supported remote-learning, with an emphasis on elearning and virtual training. The consensus suggests that our existing elearning and training weren’t as well-received as we hoped.

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How Healthy is Your Learning Program? Protect the Physical and Mental Health of Your Learners With These Insights From Neuroscience

Speaker: Margie Meacham, Chief Freedom Officer of Learningtogo, LLC

Why isn't your eLearning program achieving the desired results? The answers to these questions lie in new scientific research on how online learning can actually alter the structure of the brain -- and these changes might be inhibiting learning, making your employees physically ill, and motivating them to run from you as fast as they can.

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Give Your Microlearning Strategy a Makeover

Speaker: Margie Meacham

How microlearning builds engagement and retention in the learner’s brain. Microlearning isn’t just a way to design new learning; it can be a way to revitalize existing content too. You’ll learn…. A step-by-step method for evaluating existing content to determine if it is a good fit for a microlearning approach.

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Agile Microlearning Explained

Learner engagement and retention doesn’t have to be a mystery. Cognitive science theories already supply the answers. Learn how OttoLearn packages them into a single platform you can use to deliver microlearning based reinforcement training, and go beyond completions to focus on outcomes.