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Must-have skills for User Experience (UX) design in eLearning

eFront

The “F” pattern. Thus, the eLearning content layout can be designed to follow the “F” pattern. Overall, a strict “F” pattern will maintain a sense of predictability in your courses leading to the comfort factor. Scan, scan, scan. The flow pattern.

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Tell Me A Story…

Upside Learning

The brain processes the information unconsciously and develops relationships and patterns. Researchers working with brain scans suggest that people build vivid mental simulations of narrative situations. The story is then reformulated to have personal relevance.

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Integrating Meta-learning

Clark Quinn

You could choose many characteristics, e.g. from the SCANS competencies (using information technology, reasoning), that the task entails. So, when we then look across topics that the learner is engaging in, and the characteristics of the assignments, we can look for patterns across competencies.

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CCK09: Notes on Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge

Experiencing eLearning

And certainly when you look at brain scans of people doing different tasks, the activity isn’t just in one area: multiple areas of the brain are involved in any complex task.But I’m also cautious about the brain evidence because, frankly, I don’t really understand it that well. connections between neurons.

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6 Visual Design Tips to Make Your Course More Effective

LearnDash

Organize content so that it can be scanned in an E. But many online readers tend to follow a skimming pattern, where they read the headline and skip over headings to make sure they’re on a relevant resource before returning to the top and reading an article in full.

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The Music of Your Sphere – The Multiple Ways Your Brain is Wired for Music

Learningtogo

Using brain imaging technologies, including fMRI and PET scans, neuroscientists have discovered that music engages multiple parts of the brain. If you want your learners to be able to: Recognize patterns. But music isn’t just a single sound. It’s a complex weaving of sounds, mixed with rhythm and sometimes language. Solve problems.

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Gamification of Learning and Training

Kapp Notes

Game mechanics, scoring, points, time elements, pattern seeking, item matching, content ratings are quickly working their way into almost every element of life. Gamification – making things that don’t seem to be a game into a game is growing in popularity.