 Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, COLRS - Online@Illinois SpringfieldOnline Learning Update - a blog published daily since 2001 by Ray Schroeder, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield |
|
|
Online Learning News and Research
Online Learning Update HOME Times and Dates Coordinated Universal Time
Search Online Learning Blog Archives
|
Friday, December 19, 2003
Feelin’ Groovy: Experts now believe that e-learning must elicit positive emotions to succeed - Lisa Currin, eLearn magazine
....“First there is emotion; after that comes cognition,” explains Frank Thissen, Professor for Multimedia Didactics and Intercultural Communication at the University of Applied Sciences in Stuttgart, Germany. “You know exactly what you personally did on September 11, 2001, because there is a link to a very intensive emotion.” Thissen, who is in the midst of a large research project studying the role of emotion in e-learning, says that while negative emotions tend to make us remember data and details clearly, positive emotions help us remember more complex things. For that reason, an e-learning experience that doesn’t engage our emotions is unlikely to hold our interest—or leave us with much long-term learning.
Comments:
Post a Comment
Online Learning News Blog Archives OTEL - Ray's Home Page - Notebook - UIS Online - U of I Online - UIS Home Fair Use
|
