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How We Connect the Dots - Instructional Design Industry

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How We Connect the Dots. April 25, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. The more varied your experience is, the more dots – or memory traces – you can connect in your brain. How does this work? According to Dr. Randall O’Reilly and Dr. Jerry Rudy, professors at the University of Colorado’s Institute of Cognitive Science, the hippocampus. In our brain is responsible for binding together memory traces. Ie, connecting the dots) into what they call. Another way to think of this term,. About Parker Grant, PhD. Parker ...

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Learning With Concept Maps - Instructional Design Industry

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Learning With Concept Maps. May 25, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. Learning with concept maps. Is like lighting up a Christmas tree in your brain. What makes this approach a bright idea? Research suggests that concept maps aid in the learning process. Because they help surface a learner’s “current” mental model. For a given domain. A concept map is a visual diagram made of nodes. This is what learning is about. If there is a learning design tip. And introduce new concepts. Joseph D. Novak, Professor Eme...

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Meet the authors of Instructional Design Industry. About Parker Grant, PhD. Parker Grant is the founder of Instructional Design Industry, an online community for learning designers, instructional designers, and many other learning professionals (new and experienced). Parker holds a PhD in Adult Learning and a MS in Educational Technology. His consulting firm, Learning Connects, continues to offer learning design and development services. About Andrea Aksland Surace. IT Global Education Professional. ...

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The Free eBook: How to become an eLearning Professional

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The Free eBook: How to become an eLearning Professional. David B. Demyan. Joel Gardner, PhD. Parker A. Grant. Liz Hardy, PhD. Anita S. Horsley, M.Ed. Dale E. Olsen. William J. Ryan, PhD. Diane Senffner, M.Ed. Christopher J. Stape. Mary E. Vivit. This is not your average looking, cliché reproducing, metaphysical, theory-loving free eLearning eBook. Do not expect to read any speculations, rhetorical questions, and abstractions related to eLearning. The free How to Become an eLearning Professional eBook.

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TRIO Model of Adult Learning - Instructional Design Industry

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TRIO Model of Adult Learning. May 15, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. A stool needs a minimum of three legs for it to stand. You know what else? A really solid adult learning model. This is where the TRIO Model of Adult Learning. In order for the learning process to stand like a stool, the TRIO Model suggests we use three legs to optimize the learning process: individual attributes, key experiences, and environmental affordances. Is achieved when all three legs are used in a reciprocating. The second leg ref...

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Mental Models in Learning - Instructional Design Industry

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Mental Models in Learning. May 10, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. We all view the same world differently. Some see climate change is caused by humans. Others see it caused by nature. But why? This is because we are all guided by our own mental models. Research suggests that our prior experiences help shape our current mental models. And how we take action to solve problems we face in our country. The good news is that we can modify and expand our mental models through new experiences. How do we do this?

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Episodic Learning - Instructional Design Industry

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April 20, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. All learning is an experience-based process. What happens when experiences are recorded in our brain is very fascinating. Any classroom or outside-of-classroom activity is an experience. Each experience is recorded in our brain as a mini-episode. Over our life time, we record millions of mini-episodes. Some are much more vivid than others. Dr Antonio Damasio, renowned neuroscientist and Director of USC Brain and Creativity Institute, explains that these mini-episodes.

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Brain Pattern Recognition - Instructional Design Industry

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April 30, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. Remarkably, our brain continuously scans neural networks of experience to find patterns. How it does this is even more amazing. Not only can our brain connect the dots. By way of connecting neural pathways, it can also identify commonalities, themes, and patterns along the way. Ray Kurzweil, computer scientist and Google’s Director of Engineering, describes that our brain’s neocortex is made of over 300 million pattern recognition circuits. What is the learning tip?

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Learning versus Teaching - Instructional Design Industry

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April 15, 2015. By Parker Grant, PhD. Learning is the transformation of experience into knowledge. Teaching, on the other hand, is a very different thing. Teaching, if done correctly, is any approach that helps to enhance learning. Many learning professionals know the difference between teacher-centered. Approaches. Yet it is easy to fall in the trap of designing courses that are mostly teacher-centered. In a learning versus teaching scenario, how can we make teaching more learner-centered? Parker Grant ...

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About - Instructional Design Industry

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Welcome to Instructional Design Industry. This site is designed to help learning professionals acquire and share tips for better learning design. It is also where we provide a safe online community for readers and authors to meet, share, and learn from the community. Continues to offer learning design and development services. For more information, email Parker at [email protected]. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Embedding Instructional ...