Ninja Tropic

APRIL 2, 2025

Competency-Based Training: The Ultimate Guide to Building a Skilled Workforce Businesses need employees who can perform their jobs effectively, not just those who have completed training. Competency-Based Training (CBT) is a training approach that focuses on developing the specific skills employees need to perform their jobs successfully.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2025

Features like AI-moderated discussion forums, interactive scenario libraries, and employee-generated content can help capture and distribute valuable real-world insights, making training more relevant and practical. By allowing employees to learn while doing their jobs, this strategy lowers cognitive overload and boosts productivity.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 23, 2020

Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. Job titles and expanding expectations. Job descriptions have also been expanding to encompass more skills, especially more technology skills, as noted in “ Digital Skills Dominate Job Ads for Instructional Designers.

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IT Training Department Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

AI narration only helps eLearning, which already had poor narration and bad scripts to boot. They’re simply doing poor-quality work even faster using AI and producing more poor-quality training that doesn’t help people learn their jobs better. Learning & Development is about helping people do their job better.

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LearnDash

AUGUST 12, 2021

In 1975, a Hungarian-American psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, identified a cognitive state of high focus and productivity which he named “flow.” This research has helped us better understand what flow is and how to achieve it. Flow naturally helps learners block out distractions, but it can still be interrupted.

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Upside Learning

JULY 4, 2024

Building on that foundation, let’s examine the subsequent essential phase: when the solution is either performance support alone or with training, that job aid design should be done first. This is because any training design that incorporates the job aid should be developed after the job aid is tested and working as appropriate.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Following those guidelines helps ensure equitable access to content for people with disabilities. 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.

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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.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 11, 2022

The different kinds of simulations in training help healthcare professionals master cognitive, technical, and behavioral skill sets with technologically advanced crafted experiences. Simulation in healthcare offers hands-on learning on procedural and cognitive skills in a real-life environment, but without risk to patients or staff.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

If you create a completely fake context for learning, you might actually reduce the transfer to the job. In general, the more realistic the context for practice, the easier it is to transfer those skills to your real job. If you can create a story that provides parallels in practice activities, it’s still cognitively relevant.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

…help learners efficiently master a large volume of foundational knowledge. Serious games work by unifying the cognitive and affective domains. Most corporate learning is dominated by the cognitive domain, tapping into our capacity to think, plan, and ascertain. . …select platforms that are scalable and modular.

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IT Training Department Blog

JULY 10, 2023

No, really, go back and cut even more out until you’re left with only the necessary information for employees to do their job, do it better, or fix what they’re doing wrong. If any content in an eLearning course doesn’t directly help one of those three things then you’re doing it wrong.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In her book Write and Organize for Deeper Learning , Patti Shank lists several tactics that help us organize training content. Therefore, if I only need to write 2 distractors, my job is easier. For example, grouping objects together on a slide helps learners perceive the objects as being related or connected. Visual design.

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Clark Quinn

MARCH 30, 2021

So here’s a cognitive story about when and where a job aid would help. In the long term, this should save them buckets of money because most people could self help. Something to help folks who have the pics. . People will self-help many times, but only if they can! And, as always, the text.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Whether you’re exploring innovative online teaching methods, embracing new ways to learn, or simply curious about eLearning and educational technology, this resource will help you understand the language that shapes digital learning. C Cognitive Load. Cognitive Overload. A Accessibility. Blooms Taxonomy. Digital Literacy.

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TalentLMS

JUNE 25, 2021

These are all good considerations, but can sometimes overshadow another important form of diversity: cognitive diversity. While less visible, it’s a helpful trait to include in creating well-rounded teams. Cognitive diversity is an important factor in reaching these goals. So what exactly is cognitive diversity?

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Experiencing eLearning

MARCH 22, 2022

You’ll learn how crafting realistic challenges and conflicts helps engage learners and drive the scenario forward. Finally, you’ll see how giving learners opportunities to make decisions with consequences in authentic scenarios helps eLearning feel immediately relevant.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 30, 2024

One of the points that resonated with me was the idea that AI will replace tasks , but for the most part won’t replace entire jobs. Some jobs will disappear, but many more jobs will change and adapt as AI is used for specific tasks within those roles. Narratives should have a structure.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Ruth Clark’s book Scenario-Based e-Learning: Evidence Based Guidelines for Online Workforce Learning explains how scenario-based elearning helps people learn new skills faster. question builds quick and fun repetition into the training programme, helping transfer from short term memory to long term memory.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

If participants can’t immediately see the connection between their training and their jobs, they won’t be motivated to complete training or to apply new skills to their jobs. This streamlined process will help you save time and make the complexity of branching scenarios more manageable. Freelancing Lessons Learned in April.

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Upside Learning

JULY 11, 2024

In our previous blog, we discussed the importance of designing effective job aids to enhance performance and support cognitive capabilities. Performance support via job aids means creating a resource people can use ‘in the moment’ to achieve outcomes that don’t require learning. Here we detail the job aid component.

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The song is an example of a mnemonic device—an effective tool for helping learners memorize nearly anything. With increased insights coming from the field of neuroscience, there’s been a heightened interest in understanding how music affects our cognitive processes. Music helps you create, organize, and retrieve memories.

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Experiencing eLearning

MAY 8, 2012

The learners did worse at “retention,” but honestly, I wouldn’t expect a narrative game to be all that effective at helping people memorize content. I’m not terribly surprised that a game with hands-on practice didn’t help people simply recall information that well.

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Learnnovators

AUGUST 9, 2023

Are the visuals augmenting the content in a way that they help make a point or elaborate a concept? These are… Emotional Engagement This involves helping learners understand why they should care for the topic. Cognitive Engagement This is the kind of engagement that requires mental effort on the part of the learner.

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Making Change

MAY 8, 2018

If we let players decide how much information to gather, they’re practicing a skill they need on the job: They need to recognize what information they need to make a good decision, and go get it. Display the backstory in the margins. In most Twine games, when you click a link for more information, you go to another screen.

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Origin Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2014

A good way to begin is by discussing a generally likely problem/ scenario that they face on-the-job and evoking responses and first-hand experiences of how they dealt with the situation. Such a design helps the content to sit in the memory of learners because they can visually recall, associate and cluster concepts based on colors.

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Spark Your Interest

JULY 13, 2021

Thinkific is a software platform that helps entrepreneurs to create, market, sell, and deliver their own online courses. Thinkific is a platform that helps experts package their knowledge and expertise and sell it. And help them to create a great online experience. A useful tool for this is the jobs-to-be-done framework.

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Making Change

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

If you just throw them in the deep end, frustration and cognitive overload and squashed self-esteem will supposedly inhibit their learning. They could more effectively apply what they’ve learned to their jobs and to new situations. From this summary of this study.

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E-Learning Provocateur

MAY 27, 2024

Critical thinking helps in analyzing vast information, while problem-solving addresses complex digital challenges. Finally, a commitment to continuous learning helps employees stay updated in this dynamic landscape.” Adaptability is crucial as the digital landscape evolves rapidly.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 11, 2017

This helps to prevent cognitive overload and allows them to retain the takeaways instead of trying to soak up information that no longer applies to their job duties or responsibilities. As a result, you’re able to customize the online training content to help them achieve their learning objectives.

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Experiencing eLearning

AUGUST 13, 2019

The links and resources in this post include scenario examples, a branching scenario tool, a presentation on learner engagement, summaries of learning research, and good news for job seekers. Cathy describes each scenario and asks questions to help you reflect about the design. Engagement can be cognitive, behavioral, or emotional.

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Kapp Notes

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Here are five games that can help with teaching algebra to students… 1) One of my favorites is DragonBox. Easy to play, easy to get started and does a wonderful job of teaching the fundamental concepts of algebra. Very helpful. Three Cognitive Benefits of Games. Here is a video. Games with an Agenda.

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WhatFix

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Employee Training Cognitive Learning: History, Functions, Benefits, Applications Published: October 3, 2024 Updated: October 3, 2024 Samantha Rohn Throughout our lives, we constantly learn new things, whether learning to read as a child or expanding arsenals of professional skills as adults. What Is Cognitive Learning?

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Tim Slade

JUNE 8, 2019

Should it be a how-to video or job aid? Prior to your learners heading into the classroom or practicing on the job, what can you provide that will enhance that experience? This can be done in the classroom, on the job, or even in an eLearning course via a simulation or scenario. Why don’t we try designing blended learning?

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Docebo

JULY 8, 2021

Social learning can help today’s organizations keep up with the pace at which their business moves. The methodology suggests that about 70% of someone’s learning happens via on-the-job experiences, 20% through interactions with their peers, and just 10% in traditional, instructor-led classroom environments. What is social learning?

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LearnDash

JUNE 18, 2020

We might attend a seminar, but we haven’t really learned it until it becomes something we use regularly on the job. Too much of a cognitive load leads to less retention. But for those that are, these tips can help you build not just a course, but an entire community. Help your learners self-motivate.

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Experiencing eLearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The conversation overall does a good job giving plausible choices for questions and showing realistic responses from the client. In the first scenario with Jake, you help someone in cardiac arrest. Time may actually decrease learners’ motivation to be truly cognitively engaged with the learning experience. Accessibility.

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