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Long-Term Memory: A User’s Guide

by Connie Malamed

Long-term Memory: A User's Guide

When you're designing learning experiences, long-term memory is the ultimate destination. It's the promised land—where you want newly learned skills and content to integrate with a person's network of … [Read more...]

Designing Learning for Mental Models

by Connie Malamed

Users have conceptual models of how things work.

Did you have trouble the first time you tried to start a keyless car? Or perhaps the first time you took a panoramic picture? According to a well-known theory, these tasks were difficult because you … [Read more...]

How To Write Better Analogies For Learning

by Connie Malamed

Analogies are a key component of human thinking and understanding. They've stimulated great feats of problem-solving and discovery. They are also a classic way to foster learning by applying prior … [Read more...]

The Power of Retrieval Practice For Learning

An Instructional Strategy for Long-term Retention

by Connie Malamed

This article has been updated and republished with new content. In a culture that requires shortcuts to improving performance—microlearning, performance support and getting quick answers from … [Read more...]

8 Principles on Cognitive Load and Collaborative Learning

by Connie Malamed

8 principles-on cognitive load and-collaborative-learning

Collaborative learning—when people work together in small groups to help each other learn—is considered an effective instructional approach. But research shows that the benefits of collaborative … [Read more...]

Can you read the minds of your learners?

An updated look at schemas and learning

by Connie Malamed

Can you read the minds of your learners

During a presentation I gave several years ago, an audience member commented that he teaches older adults how to use software programs. "When these adult students don't understand a concept, they are … [Read more...]

What is cognitive load?

by Connie Malamed

As far as I can tell, working memory (WM), the aspect of our brain that manipulates information in the moment, affects most everything we do in terms of learning. Working memory can only hold around … [Read more...]

Metacognition And Learning: Strategies For Instructional Design

by Connie Malamed

Metacognition and Learning

Do you know how to learn? Many people don't. Specifically, they don't know how to look inward to examine how they learn and to judge which methods are effective. That's where metacognitive … [Read more...]

Watch Out For Those Seductive Details

by Connie Malamed

In order to make courses engaging, particularly compliance-type courses, you may add content that is tangentially related to the topic in the hopes of motivating or entertaining the audience. These … [Read more...]

Strategies For Tacit Knowledge Transfer

by Connie Malamed

Tacit Knowledge Is Difficult to Articulate Can you explain all of the skills necessary to be an effective leader? What about the skills needed to create an innovative design? There are aspects of … [Read more...]

Six Strategies You May Not Be Using To Reduce Cognitive Load

by Connie Malamed

Six Strategies You May Not Use To Reduce Cognitive Load

In a complex world, it's easy to get overwhelmed by a deluge of complex information. This shouldn't be surprising, as working memory (our mental work space), has a limited capacity for processing … [Read more...]

Self-Directed Learning: Empowerment In The Workplace

by Connie Malamed

self-directed learning for the workplace

Have you picked up a new skill in the past year? Or studied a subject on your own to become more competent? In his characterization of the adult learner, Malcolm Knowles noted that as people mature, … [Read more...]

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