Tag Archives: cognitive-science

Outstanding (and Practical) Learning Styles Research Paper

By Michael Feldstein | September 27, 2004

This piece [PDF] from the Learning Research Centre is one of the finest educational research articles I have read in a long time. To begin with, their literature review of the research to-date is superb. They break down each major theoretical school with its strengths and weaknesses, as well as weaknesses in research and methodology. [...]

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Your Writing Style Should Influence Your Blog Layout

By Michael Feldstein | September 23, 2004

You’ll get even more mileage from Amy Gahran’s must-read series on the seven styles of blog posts if you consider it in conjunction with the site usability findings of the Eyetrack III project. For example, the study found that pages with large headline font sizes relative to the article text encourage scanning and discourage [...]

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Multimedia vs. Text Comprehension: Empirical Data

By Michael Feldstein | September 22, 2004

The Eyetrack III project has has conducted a

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Informational Cascades, Network Theory, and Behavioral Economics

By Michael Feldstein | August 29, 2004

Stephen Downes’ mention of my article on informational cascades (thanks for the plug, Stephen) led me to his post in the trdev discussion group. He writes:
In network theory, ‘groupthink’ is an instance of what is known as a cascade phenomenon. A cascade occurs (all other things being equal) when the propogation of a property (an [...]

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