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Mettleflo and The Learning Rooms Transform Resilience Training

The Learning Rooms

This comprehensive course helps participants: Gain greater self-understanding Develop more effective coping strategies Live a more fulfilling life aligned with personal values and beliefs Expert-Led Content The Building Resilience course brings together decades of clinical and academic expertise: Dr James Erskine , Senior Lecturer at City St.

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Tips for Storytelling in Learning

Experiencing eLearning

TED Talks Storytelling Techniques by Akash Karia: Great TED Talks include great storytelling to share a message without the audience feeling like they’re being lectured or preached to. Manage cognitive load. Stories help us activate prior knowledge, minimize cognitive load so more brain power focused on learning transfer.

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5 Reasons to Use Gamification in E-Learning

Origin Learning

Games help in development of cognitive ability. For example, a simulated game that has engineer trainees repairing different machineries that get more complex as they complete each level, will ultimately develop their cognitive ability in that area. Thus, games increase learning motivation. Practice makes a man perfect, doesn’t it?

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Top 10 +1 Instructional Game Design Best Practices

Kapp Notes

Practice #7 – As much as possible, the cognitive activities in the game should match the cognitive activities on-the-job. Passive game play is no better instructionally than a lecture. Practice #6 – If possible, create the game so learners must work in groups. The closer the two match, the better the learning transfer.

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Learning by Watching: Social Cognitive Theory and Vicarious Learning

Origin Learning

Rather, we have stated this example to prove a point: that observation is an intrinsic human technique to learn unfamiliar tasks or behaviors – something that has been theorized by the psychologist Albert Bandura as what he called the ‘Social Cognitive Theory’. What is Social Cognitive Theory? Image Credit – [link].

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Foundations of Learning Science

Clark Quinn

My take is that most of school still replicated what had been done since the Prussians invented school, somewhat modeled on religious lectures. I think the care is cognitive science: how we process information. While there are neural underpinnings, most of the results and prescriptions operate at the cognitive level, or above.

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Spaced Retrieval, Retrieval Practice, and Knowledge Guru: What Research Tells Us

Knowledge Guru

Additionally, using the combination of a quizzing game and online lectures, student’s minds will focus more on the course and wander less, which is always an issue in online learning. In the study by Harvard researchers, participants were asked to learn from a 21-minute video lecture on statistics. References cited. [1] And Cull W.

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