How your Student’s Attention Span affects your eLearning Platform

Did you know that with the advent of increased technology in our day-to-day lives that the average human attention span has actually gotten shorter over time?

A 2015 study by Microsoft of 2,000 survey participants and 112 individuals monitored via EEG in Canada found that since the year 2000 (queue the mobile revolution) a person’s average attention span has dropped a staggering 33% from 12 seconds to 8 seconds. This dramatic decline in people’s ability to focus is largely attributed to the rapid explosion of the internet and so many people engaging in multi-screen use, especially smartphones, making it more difficult to filter out irrelevant stimuli which in turn causes shorter attention spans.

In fact, the average human attention span of 8 seconds is shorter than that of a goldfish’s at 9 seconds… 

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