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Learning: Actively Recalling Information from Memory Beats Elaborate Study Methods

Posted February 6th, 2011 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Jan. 21, 2011) — Put down those science books and work at recalling information from memory. That's the shorthand take away message of new research from Purdue University that says practicing memory retrieval boosts science learning far better than elaborate study methods. "Our view is that learning is not about studying or getting knowledge 'in memory,'" said Purdue psychology professor Jeffrey Karpicke, the lead investigator for the study that appears January 20 in the journal Science. "Learning is about retrieving.
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Pretty woman, dumb man…

Posted October 7th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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Johan Karremans couldn’t remember his own address when an attractive lady asked him at the end of a conversation. This Dutch psychologist had been so busy trying to impress her that his cognitive abilities were temporary exhausted. He decided to investigate this more closely and discovered man can’t think optimally after a conversation with a woman. The prettier the woman, the stronger the effect. With women this effect did not appear.

Right-Handed and Left-Handed People Do Not See the Same Bright Side of Things

Posted February 11th, 2010 by parbuckle
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ScienceDaily (Feb. 2, 2010) — Despite the common association of "right" with life, correctness, positiveness and good things, and "left" with death, clumsiness, negativity and bad things, recent research shows that most left-handed people hold the opposite association. Thus, left-handers become an interesting case in which conceptual associations as a result of a sensory-motor experience, and conceptual associations that rely on linguistic and cultural norms, are contradictory.

Hybrid Events redefining the Meetings Industry?

Posted September 10th, 2012 by ruudwjanssen
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Richard John talks about Hybrid and Virtual events components

Posted June 14th, 2012 by mireia.iglesias
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Richard John from Derby university explains MPI Project about Hybrid and Virtual events in which Meeting Support Institute is involved too.

Richard John talking about MPI Research study about Hybrid and Virtual Events and the Human Factor from Meeting Support Institute on Vimeo.
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Adult Learning

Posted April 23rd, 2010 by helena.davidsson_1
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An Overview
As you well know, the area of adult learning is extremely broad. The information in this section will certainly not do justice to all of the information that has been published on this subject. What you will find here are some of the main points that are examined in ADE 5385 (Adult Learning). As usual, check your list of readings from this class for a fuller picture of what adult learning includes.

Totaly relaxing

Posted December 21st, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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If you think relaxation, or even napping at conference should be an accepted best practice, here is news for you.
With a little bit of AV (light and sound) you can now create the best relaxing environment in the world at your conference.
Add one hostess that gently wakes up individuals at the time they wish and the greatest relaxing service at conferences is now ready to welcome the stressed or tired.
A conference venue could even invest in a permanent relax room that with a simple switch of a button can be turned on or off.

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