Design For How People Learn (Second Edition) (Voices That Matter)

By: Julie Dirksen

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Synopsis: In this book, you will discover how to use the key principles behind learning, memory, and attention to create materials that enable your audience to both gain and retain the knowledge and skills you're sharing. Updated to cover new insights and research into how we learn and remember, this new edition includes new techniques for using social media for learning as well as two brand new chapters on designing for habit and best practices for evaluating learning, such as how and when to use tests. Using accessible visual metaphors and concrete methods and examples, this book will teach you how to leverage the fundamental concepts of instructional design both to improve your own learning and to engage your audience.