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JenRhodes
11 years agoCommunity Member
Ideas for VERY dry content
Hello - I'm very new to e-learning and the Articulate programs. I've used Studio to build my first e-learning module, and just got Storyline. I have now been tasked to create an e-learning module ...
SteveFlowers
11 years agoCommunity Member
Great suggestion, Chris. Priming questions can be really helpful to the learning process. Good teachers use this technique in the classroom to get folks to orient to a topic before exploration. A lot of really great brain science behind priming.
Will Thalheimer points out the attention benefits of pre-questions in this report. Beyond attention, there is research that paints a strong link between authentic cues (some of the best questions are authentic cues) and the desired behaviors. Priming someone with the challenge gets their attention. But it does so in a way that opens them up to making a connection with the right answer. This is how I interpret the research, at any rate:)
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