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Designing eLearning for Cognitive Ease

Integrated Learnings

I recently started reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman, and the chapter on cognitive ease offered all sorts of implications for eLearning design. This, combined with additional discussion in the book, suggests that a bad mood creates cognitive strain, and a good mood promotes cognitive ease. By Shelley A.

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15 Cognitive Learning Examples for Real-World Applications

eLearningMind

So, in this blog, we list and explain 15 cognitive learning examples, and we talk about the benefits of cognitive learning and where you can apply it, whether youre an educator, learning experience designer, corporate trainer, or just a curious lifelong learner. What is cognitive learning? Experiential learning.

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How Research Informs My Work

Experiencing eLearning

Good instructional writing is “practical application that is grounded in theory,” to borrow a phrase from Judy Katz. If people don’t need to spend much cognitive effort figuring out HOW to access and navigate training, they can expend more effort toward actual learning. Conversational tone.

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New recommended readings

Clark Quinn

She writes about new facets of cognition that open up a whole area for our understanding. In the areas I know and have talked about, e.g. emergent and distributed cognition, she gets it right, which leads me to believe the rest is similarly spot on. So, the first book I want to recommend is Annie Murphy Paul’s The Extended Mind.

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Abstracts of Three Studies Related to Pedagogical Agents

Kapp Notes

The findings of this study have implications for advancing theory and practice, as well as highlighting productive future directions for research. 2) female learners assigned higher trust to the lesson presented by expert-like agent that to the lesson presented by peer-like agent. (3) Abstract Two.

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TCC09: The Tao of Online Facilitation

Experiencing eLearning

The presentation also shows how these principles complement the following adult education theories: constructivism, andragogy, cognitive economy, and asynchronous learning. Wu-wei is not doing nothing; it’s trusting the flow of energy and going with it rather than trying to control it. Make learning easier by.

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The HR Challenge: Analyze Your Corporate Training Needs

eFront

Is the content organization violating the cognitive overload theory (providing too much information in one screen). Keep into account the adult learning theories that describe the effective methods of tackling training programs. Maybe team development and team trust is the main issue that prevents success in training.