Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 23, 2020

Do instructional designers and learning experience designers need to know how to use development tools, or should they focus just on analysis and design? Psychology, cognitive science, graphic design, usability, and other fields also overlap with instructional design. In instructional design, we have both broad and deep skills.

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Experiencing eLearning

JANUARY 16, 2024

While this is more of an HR task, it’s related to L&D because of the connections between skills and training to address skill gaps. What is Cognitive Task Analysis? Cognitive Task Analysis isn’t one approach to analysis, but rather a number of related methods to uncover information from SMEs.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

I had the pleasure of doing a Q&A session on scenario-based learning with Devlin Peck recently. Are there certain topics or learning objectives that scenario-based learning would not be good for? In which situations does it make the most sense to use scenario-based learning? Watch the recording. Questions answered.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 2, 2024

How do you increase learning impact through scenario-based learning? While no solution is right for every training situation, we know that providing opportunities for practice with feedback is critical for developing skills. Addressing Misconceptions: Learn to tackle common misconceptions through realistic scenarios.

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eLearning Industry

MAY 19, 2022

Understanding cognitive biases is a critical skill for the workforce because it can facilitate better decision-making. This article discusses cognitive biases and remedies. The human brain thinks in particular ways that can prompt decisions and actions that are not based on rational judgments.

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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 29, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with JW Marshall on the Voices of E-learning podcast. One of the themes of our conversation was how emotionally engaging content can improve learning outcomes. Trends in learning. One of the benefits of using storytelling and scenarios for e-learning is creating an emotional connection.

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Upside Learning

MARCH 5, 2025

Beyond formal courses, online learning can revolutionize knowledge retention, adaptive problem-solving, and real-time decision-making. The Overlooked Role of Peer-to-Peer Learning Top-down instructional design is used in the majority of telecom and IT eLearning projects, with L&D personnel or outside vendors creating organized modules.

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The Learning Rooms

APRIL 11, 2025

Welcome to the A-Z of Digital Learning, your comprehensive glossary of learning and eLearning terminology. The inclusive practice of removing barriers and making learning content usable and accessible to everyone. The inclusive practice of removing barriers and making learning content usable and accessible to everyone.

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Clarity Consultants

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Continuous learning is essential for individual and organizational success. As companies increasingly turn to eLearning platforms to facilitate employee training and development, it’s crucial to understand the cognitive processes at play. Some topics are naturally more complex, requiring more cognitive resources to understand.

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eLearning Industry

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Cognitive skills like critical thinking, problem-solving, and reading comprehension shape childrens ability to understand, interpret, and respond to their environment. Explore why these skills are essential and how parents can develop them in children for long-term success. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Experiencing eLearning

APRIL 16, 2019

The links and resources in this post include collections of research, specific research on retrieval practice, an overview of learning theories, H5P’s new branching scenario option, and a widget for changing the colors in the Storyline modern player. Learning Science and Research. tags: research learning.

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

APRIL 22, 2024

Yet, we often develop learning experiences that exclude a significant portion of our learners—those with disabilities. As I wrote into the Inclusive Learning Pledge , we don’t have to sacrifice good design for accessibility. And I’m including some links to additional information for learning more. Everyone, right?

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Scissortail's Learning Nest

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

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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Experiencing eLearning

JUNE 6, 2023

This post includes links on game design, branching scenario tools and templates, ChatGPT prompts for ID, AI tools, learning science, engagement, and the “magic email” for freelancers and consultants. Be clear about the learning goal. Make sure the story is realistic, relevant, and tied to the learning goal.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 11, 2022

Simulation in healthcare is the artificial representation of real-world processes used to attain medical training objectives through experiential learning. The optimum goal of simulations is to enhance the learning experience, engagement, and outcomes using simulated scenarios followed by good feedback and debriefing.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This post includes research on stories and memory, games for learning, scenario-based learning, a definition of LXD, and a few AI image tools. Games for learning Game Making Software – Construct 3 Construct is a tool for creating games with visual programming (Javascript is also an option). This was created in Playground.

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Experiencing eLearning

DECEMBER 15, 2020

What are the benefits of scenario-based learning? 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. Ruth Clark in Scenario-Based e-Learning , pp. Accelerated expertise.

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KnowledgeCity

JUNE 22, 2023

To create a truly diverse team that fosters these benefits, managers must harness cognitive diversity, where diverse thinking styles thrive. Let’s take a deep dive into cognitive diversity, why it’s important, and how to work with different thinking styles in your organization. What Is Cognitive Diversity?

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Infopro Learning

JUNE 15, 2020

Online training is the perfect learning solution for improving the productivity and engagement of your remote workforce. E-Learning boosts retention by as much as 25-60% (1). This is a quick and cost-effective way to use the ILT content you already have, to create engaging virtual learning experiences. Select the Right Content.

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Gyrus

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Explore the key priorities for L&D leaders in 2024, including cognitive skills, technology literacy, experiential learning, and compliance training.

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Experiencing eLearning

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Not all stories for learning are successful in engaging learners. In fact, it can backfire, as some companies have learned. If you create a completely fake context for learning, you might actually reduce the transfer to the job. Fantasy in games and stories for learning. Is a remote island the best setting?

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Infopro Learning

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The learning and development (L&D) department has grown more centralized, strategic, and cross-functional, which indicates that digital transformation has begun to permeate the L&D function. Learning leaders will play a crucial role in ensuring this transition’s success. Shift to employee-centered, active learning.

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Experiencing eLearning

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This post includes links with examples of scenarios, tips for creating scenarios, AI tools, reflections on AI and skills, and research on using videos for learning. Everyone is above average Ethan Mollick reflects on possible ways AI might affect skills. I’m continuing to experiment with AI tools for creating images.

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Learningtogo

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Strategic Use of Music to Support Learning. Since these areas are also known to play a role in memory and recall, it’s not a big leap to conclude that music can support or even accelerate the learning process. Over the past two years, almost 100,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published with the keywords “music and learning.”

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InSync Training

MARCH 21, 2023

The Need for Consistency and Reliability in Learning & Development Imagine you have a ruler made of some weird alien material that is somehow tied to the quantum wave function in such a way that it changes dimensions every time you use it. One day, your desk is five feet wide, the next, six and a half.

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LearnDash

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Checklists can be a helpful learning aid—when they’re used correctly. Create structure for their learning experience. But as a learning tool, these long, process-oriented checklists are more likely to hinder your learners than help them. Assess your checklist items and make sure they are within your learner’s skill level.

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LearnDash

JUNE 18, 2020

Turn learning into a habit, and your learners will be with you for life. Many of us are used to thinking of learning as something that happens once. We take a course, we read a book, we attend a seminar, and at the end of it, we’ve learned something! But the reality of learning is that it rarely happens this way.

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E-Learning Provocateur

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In addition to my annual list of conferences in Australia for digital educators, I applied my cognitive surplus to another nine posts that dive deeper into the murky waters of meaning. In Great and small I reshaped our pedagogical terminology.

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Clark Quinn

JUNE 14, 2022

I’ve argued both that Learning Experience Design (LXD) is an improvement on Instructional Design (ID), and that LXD is the elegant integration of learning science with engagement. Overall, it’s too easy to focus purely on the cognitive. I suggest that this manifests in two ways. What does this mean in practice?

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Dashe & Thomson

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Learning and Development: Social Learning for Leaders. For leaders, social learning is?an an effective way to increase desired leadership abilities, behaviors, ethics, and skills. Social learning requires constant awareness of your surroundings and your responses to the actions of yourself and others around you.

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Clark Quinn

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

This is the third of four posts about making learning meaningful. Here, I talk about the implications for some key learning elements. That might even happen before the learning experience introduction, though you will want to reiterate the WIIFM. And, as always, the text. A mismatch can undermine learner motivation.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Much of my work as an instructional designer involves writing–and we have a lot of research to guide us on how to write to support learning. Specifically, this is the personalization principle from Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning. Even though I was already pretty good, my skills are better after that course.

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Infopro Learning

JULY 27, 2023

Learning leaders must adopt a comprehensive perspective encompassing these elements to effectively address these disruptive changes and reevaluate their organization’s approach to foster meaningful employee training delivery and knowledge retention. Even when imperceptible, it silently underpins the most interactive interactions.

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Experiencing eLearning

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

2/5/20: ID Certificates and Master’s Degrees 2/20/20: Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-Based Learning that Engages Participants 3/31/20: Streamlining Branching Scenario Planning and Design Early April (Dates TBA): Freelancing Lessons Learned. Go Beyond Boring: Creating Scenario-Based Learning that Engages Participants 2/20.

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