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Semantic to Neural Encoding

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments

I presume that as we move forward in time along experience data, broad classifications of initial impressions (internal value attributions, beliefs, interpretations) become increasingly detailed, as with an anisotropic filter.  Radial branches from the event origin map more or less with other event origins like twigs off main branches, according to similarity algorithms.  But when [...]

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Tags: Learning Theory · Memory · Neurology · Perceptions

Load Theory

February 4th, 2009 · No Comments

This episode of the new Science Channel TV series called “Weird Connections” is incredibly important to the field of Cognitive Load Theory.
Check it out:

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Tags: Human Computer Interaction · Instructional Design · Learning Theory

On the need for better theories, and the use thereof in the guidance of teaching practices

September 17th, 2007 · No Comments

First principles first, right? (that is, one should consider first principles in any serious academic endeavor, at least before a “Toward a Theory Governing [insert two-dollar words here] . Blah blah”)? Well, I would like to begin by stating that a simple definition does not meet the traditional scientific criteria for a theory. Although in [...]

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Tags: Instructional Design · Learning Theory · Philosophy of Science