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Best Practices to Ensure Successful Custom e-Learning Development

Infopro Learning

1 E-learning platforms are undoubtedly the most engaging and effective mediums for training and teaching employees. Creating a perfect balance of the content types is important to developing an interesting and fresh e-learning course. Consider the physical disabilities of employees when creating e-learning courses.

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Effective eLearning Content Development to prevent Cognitive Overload

Thinkdom

This means that when we are exposed to too much information, we experience cognitive overload, which hinders our learning and retention. This is what cognitive overload feels like. In this blog, we will discover the importance of effective eLearning content development that prevents cognitive overload.

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Cognitive Load Theory: The Key to Smarter Instructional Design

Origin Learning

What is cognitive load theory (CLT)? ‘Cognitive’ means mental and ‘load’ means burden, so this theory basically studies the mental load that the human brain faces when learning happens. This is what a schema does: it helps in shedding some of the cognitive load.

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Ruth Clark Claims “Games Don’t Teach”

Experiencing eLearning

Ruth Clark posted at ASTD an article titled “ Why Games Don’t Teach.” Gee, that “under two hours” point seems like an important limitation of the research, maybe one that should have been mentioned by Clark when claiming that games have no value and “don’t teach.”

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How to Learn about Learning Science

Experiencing eLearning

Learning Science for Instructional Designers: From Cognition to Application Millennials, Goldfish & Other Training Misconceptions: Debunking Learning Myths and Superstitions Make It Meaningful: Taking Learning Design From Instructional to Transformational (available as an ebook through LDA Press or as a paperback through Amazon ).

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Games Teach!

Kapp Notes

It was sparked by Ruth Clark’s article “ Why Games Don’t Teach. ” So, So looking at the argument, Why Games Don’t Teach, we have several interesting positions: Games Don’t Teach. 6) [and]… The second “claim,” that games enhance cognitive learning, continues to be supported. The Argument. 7 studies).

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Scenario-Based Learning Q&A with Devlin Peck

Experiencing eLearning

Do you find that SMEs give you enough information to create realistic scenarios, or do you also have to do additional research to fill in gaps? How do you know if you have too many branches, and risk cognitive overload for the learner? Some situations we teach about are inherently quite complex. Branching scenario tips.

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