How Do Relationships and Imagination Work? Relationships are created when two elements are placed on the same screen. As Albert Einstein stated in the law…
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It’s All About Relationships Good visuals for learning must support an awareness of the relationship between your use of the visuals and the content. You…
Content is King But… The more facts you cram onto a screen, the less likely it is that those facts will be remembered. This is…
Why So Many Details, Details, Details? All these details may seem like a lot to begin with, but it is just like anything else: practice…
There are many quizzes and short tests you can take for free online that will tell you what your dominant learning style might be. Just…
When considering cognitive load, why is visual design for learning so important? It is because too much of a good thing is too much. Visual…
What Are Learning Styles? Most of us are predominantly visual learners. The term visual learner comes from NLP or Neural Linguistic Programming and the VAK…
How to Minimize Cognitive Load Effectively? Another concept to keep in mind is that learning occurs with active processing in the memory system, in other…
Why is Cognitive Load the Answer to Almost Everything? When you develop training and learning materials it is critical that you see them through the…
What Is Trilogy of the Mind? The effort to establish artificial intelligence with computers has lead to major strides in this area. A lot of…
Why You Need to Use Mirrors? Since you read from left to right, your content should be on the left so learners can naturally read…
What Do Expectations Have to Do With Learning? Expectations are what we imagine might be true or what we think is likely to happen. Expectations…
What Prior Knowledge, If Any, Does Your Audience Need? Prior knowledge is what you already know. It makes sense that if your brain works in…
What Impacts Learning? I don’t know how people learn. No one knows for sure. There has been considerable research on the subject and three things…
What Does Chunking Have to Do With Learning? How does this apply to training and learning? Learners should not be thinking about lower level skills…
