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eLearning & Training: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The student sat motionless, with eyes shut for about a minute and a half, pen still poised.   According to the article  Turning into Digital Goldfish , "The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of a goldfish." The class had started at one o'clock. Then he just nodded off.

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Adobe Captivate & eLearning: How Long is Too Long?

The Logical Blog by IconLogic

The student sat motionless, with eyes shut for about a minute and a half, pen still poised.     According to the article Turning into Digital Goldfish , "The addictive nature of web browsing can leave you with an attention span of nine seconds --the same as a goldfish."  Then he just nodded off.

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Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? We All Did. | Social Learning Blog

Dashe & Thomson

I’m sure you have had the experience of having to remember a phone number for the minute or two it took you to find a pen and paper. Most likely not, though it might depend on how many times you repeated that number in your head the day before while looking for a pen. Brain Rule #5: Repeat to remember. What did you do?

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Organizing Content: PPT, Index Cards, Other Methods?

Experiencing eLearning

Bring up a PowerPoint slide in your web conferencing software and drag and drop live while you’re on the phone. I’m very comfortable composing at the keyboard, but sometimes for creative writing like that storyline, I still want that physical sensation of a pen in my hand. This was quick and dirty, but it got the job done.

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How Writing a Learning Journal Can Increase Critical Thinking Skills

Absorb LMS

That’s something we used to do occasionally before we all became addicted to checking our Web-enabled devices every few minutes for our much-needed digital data fixes. Second, the act of putting pen to paper (or finger to keyboard) engages our brains. Remember reflection? To write we have to think.

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New to Docebo LMS: 9 ways to supercharge your online training platform

Docebo

Meanwhile, a new web application, optimized for any smartphone browser, will soon make its debut so your learners can access training content on any device. New Web Conferencing Integrations: We built integrations with Blue Jeans, Zoom.us and more to support live learning sessions across the best web conferencing tools.

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LearnTrends: Personal Knowledge Management

Experiencing eLearning

He forces himself to not have too many interesting things in the “holding pen&# at a time. Web Tools for Critical Thinking (Dave Pollard). Google Reader to pull everything in. Used to use Bloglines, accumulated lots of saved items but never looked back at them. Delicious: what he uses to save things instead of Bloglines.