eLearning Industry

MARCH 22, 2020

Research shows that it’s not necessarily a good idea to add a how-to-use-this-course tutorial for our online courses as it can increase anxiety and cognitive load. The simpler and broader implications and what to do instead are discussed. This post was first published on eLearning Industry.

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Spark Your Interest

JULY 13, 2021

Access Your Free Tutorials. Access Your Free Tutorials. And if you follow good design principles, you’ll also help manage the cognitive load. We have created two Thinkific video tutorials by a Thinkific Specialist. Access your free Thinkific video tutorials here. Access Your Free Tutorials.

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eFront

MAY 16, 2017

Employees usually react to bulky text blocks in one of two ways: They either click away as soon as they spot the daunting wall of text or they try to absorb as much information as possible, which in turn results in cognitive overload. In either case, they are unable to build their knowledge and remember the takeaways.

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Coreaxis

APRIL 12, 2021

This is a great example of how cognitive diversity can drive innovative thinking by encouraging employees to take their experience and expertise from one area and apply them to another. Embracing cognitive diversity and difference is the foundation of critical and creative thinking. Cognitive Diversity Drives Problem Solving.

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Infopro Learning

APRIL 10, 2018

Microlearning reduces cognitive overload and improves knowledge retention. Turn Online Training Tutorials Into Interactive Demos. Simple text-based online training tutorials can be transformed into engaging video demos with an effective rapid eLearning authoring tool.

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TechSmith Camtasia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Tutorial videos are a fantastic way to connect with your audience through teaching and learning. But is there such a thing as a one-size-fits-all tutorial video workflow? He joins The Visual Lounge to share how he adapts his tutorial video workflow to ensure highly effective instructional videos. The first stage is awareness.

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TechSmith Camtasia

AUGUST 29, 2017

Creating a video tutorial series is a great go-to strategy for any training program and when done right, it creates a more manageable learning experience, with content that’s easily reusable. To get started, check out our six steps to start making a video tutorial program. #1 Who would benefit the most from these tutorials?

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TalentLMS

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

For example, learning the latest application to execute mundane procedures in your organization, a recent job-aid update, a research release tutorial that demonstrates the need for a change and how to implement the change in a business process of your organization, a new equipment training, a sought-after certification training.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A tutorial video on using a table saw can be good and so can one on making pivot tables in Microsoft Excel. But, there are also some poor tutorials out there Just because you explain something to someone doesn’t automatically make it a solid tutorial. So, what makes a good tutorial video?

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Spark Your Interest

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

These include, Managing Cognitive Load: Cognitive load refers to the number of working memory resources a person is using. Heavy cognitive load can have adverse effects on task completion. And it’s important to note that the experience of cognitive load is not the same in everyone. It consists of. e-learning examples.

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Knowledge Guru

MARCH 15, 2017

Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to help you craft your objectives and accurately assess what level of cognitive skill learners need to use to produce your goal. The revised version flips the final two levels and uses different synonyms to describe the lowest level of cognition. Read the full tutorial in our Knowledge Base. Read Tutorial.

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CourseArc

JULY 12, 2017

Clark, it’s based on research about cognitive learning behaviors. Thе еLеаrnіng Coach – Connie Malamed, the eLearning Coach herself, shares practical advice, tutorials, and actionable strategies that will help new instructional designers confidently create useful content. Clark, Chopeta Lyons). Like other books by Ruth C.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Creating a video tutorial series is a great go-to strategy for any training program. To get started, check out our six steps to start making a video tutorial program. #1 The first step in creating a great video tutorial series is to get to know your audience. Who would benefit the most from these video tutorials?

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eFront

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

For instance, technical training usually needs simulations, service improvement training usually need scenario-based decision making, and product training requires detailed tutorials on the product. Is the content organization violating the cognitive overload theory (providing too much information in one screen).

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Mike Taylor

AUGUST 4, 2023

What I’m Listening To: The Wallows is another discovery that I’ve made courtesy of my “official music consultant” (my daughter) Last Week’s Most Clicked: Using Images in Visual Design News & Notes Cognitive Bias Cheatsheet Our brains use cognitive biases as a way to save energy and cognitive resources.

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Mike Taylor

JULY 14, 2023

Cognitive load is influenced by motivation, task elements, and background knowledge. Cognitive load is influenced by motivation, task elements, and background knowledge. Original, illustrated design tutorials to help you design better websites & apps. It has three types: intrinsic, extraneous, and germane load.

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Aptara

MARCH 19, 2025

Using Microlearning for Better Knowledge Retention Traditional training sessions often overwhelm employees with information, leading to cognitive overload. Whether through a searchable digital library, AI-powered chatbots, or short tutorials, JIT learning bridges knowledge gaps in real time, improving productivity and efficiency.

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Adobe Captivate

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Knowledge of following theories and models: Situated Cognition Theory. What skills are useful when entering the eLearning industry: There are many skills that are useful, but I feel these are the most important ones: Being a creative person (a must have). A passion for helping others to learn (a must have). Sociocultural Learning Theory.

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Kapp Notes

JANUARY 13, 2015

Here is the abstract: This experimental study investigated whether computer-based video games facilitate children’s cognitive learning. This group played the game Fire Captai n is a real-time strategy game, the players needed to put out a fire atthe end of tutorial mission, and their performance was graded by the game.

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Knowledge Guru

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

It implies a cognitive and affective absorption that goes beyond mere attention and focus and encapsulates a love of what one is doing. Provide tutorials for online games and provide clear directions and a guided start to games done in a live environment. The bottom-line: kids love to play games.

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Clark Quinn

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Last week, at Online Educa in Berlin, I gave a tutorial on deeper elearning as a pre-conference event. Learning solutions for performance and for education both still need to respect our neural and cognitive architecture. Thus we need to be as aware of cognition in our designing as in our design.

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Knowledge Guru

JUNE 21, 2016

Get learners comfortable with rules and game play before starting – or build in tutorial guidance. Match cognitive activities in the game to the cognitive activities required on the job. Embed learning within curriculum; include reflection activities. Keep rules, scoring, and leveling simple.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

TechSmith just released an app called FastTrack that lets you take the complete series of Camtasia Studio 7 tutorials anywhere your iPad can go. Add tutorials for other products? Switching back and forth between the video and the application can be cognitively taxing and asking people to put a lot of information in short-term memory.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This led to the formation of the Cognitive Science Society in the early 80s. The right way to think about it is through a cognitive level. The cognitive approach is about perception, sensation, and attention and how that gets into the working memory before making its way into the long-term memory. It’s about context as well.

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Mike Taylor

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Simplifying Cognitive Load Theory. Adam Boxer ( @adamboxer1 ) takes a stab and simplifying the cognitive load theory. John Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) may be the single most important thing for teachers to know, but it was not necessarily designed with teachers in mind. Battling the Bandwidth of your Brain. Good stuff.

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TechSmith Camtasia

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Cognitive Load. For a microvideo to be effective, there must be a reduction in cognitive load for the learner, which is the amount of information being processed by the brain. To reduce cognitive load, images and sound consumed through the eyes and ears contain no incidental media. Visit the Camtasia tutorial page to learn more.

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Learning Visions

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Hopping : hoping between levels from easy, medium, hard Cognitive spread – items spread on next few days to smooth out workload…if you miss a day of work, then it spreads that out over the next few days, it doesn’t just shove your mixed work into the next day.

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Clark Quinn

JANUARY 6, 2009

People sometimes want to learn how to do it themselves, and other times they are just as happy to have a smart system partner with them to reduce their cognitive load and still produce superior results. In it, they now have tutorials on guitar and keyboards; introductory videos built in to teach you instrument basics.

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LearnDash

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Don’t neglect a tutorial introduction that walks your learners through how to submit an assignment or where to access important information. There’s also a huge difference in mobile vs. desktop use, with older Millennials more comfortable on laptops, and younger Millennials more comfortable on smartphones.

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Instancy

APRIL 1, 2025

Understanding User-Generated Content (UGC) in Learning User-Generated Content (UGC) is any form of contentvideos, assessments, tutorials, discussion threads, collaborative documents, and microlearning modulescreated by users rather than centralized institutions or professional developers.

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TechSmith Camtasia

APRIL 12, 2022

A lot of tutorial videos aren’t exactly what you’d call entertaining. But, adding music to a tutorial video can transform even the most mundane topic. This post will cover everything you need to know to add music to a tutorial video effectively. So, is a tutorial video with music more effective than one without?

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TalentLMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Break the concept down even further and you’re presented with three different adaptability types: cognitive, emotional, and personal. Cognitive adaptability Cognitive adaptability is about structuring thoughts to consider and explore different scenarios. And, by doing so, plan for different outcomes.

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Adobe Captivate

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To put it simply, the learning content is chunked to reduce learner’s cognitive overload making it easy for learners to absorb and recall. For instance, it could be a mini eLearning module with a smaller chunk of learning content or a video tutorial or even a quiz or an infographic. And this results in better learning retention.

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The Game Agency

APRIL 4, 2019

Cognitive bias is something we think about often. It’s very important to understand how cognitive bias work. Using my knowledge from creating commercial games and tutorial systems, I’ll be sharing a series of blog posts aimed at explaining the important relationship cognitive biases have on designing systems of learning.

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Paradiso Solutions

JULY 7, 2022

Assists in the reduction of cognitive overload. This prevents cognitive overload, allowing them to absorb and assimilate the most critical points. This is related to the first benefit, as less cognitive overload leads to better knowledge retention and recall. TRY OUR DEMO NOW!! Enhances Knowledge Retention and Recall.

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Rapid eLearning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

One place where they work well is when I am doing quick screencast tutorials. And the right track with a good beat can set a tone and help move the tutorial along. I know that there are many of you who will trot out the cognitive load arguments. Adding a subtle background track covers the noise. That’s all good.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 22, 2023

It involves breaking down rather sophisticated learning content into compact modules to reduce cognitive load. This demonstrates that more byte-sized courses or tutorials will appear in the eLearning market in the upcoming year. When compared to traditional learning methods, microlearning serves to be 17% more effective.

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