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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

In a series of articles, I will take a closer look at three modern adult learning theories that are not only relevant but highly applicable. This is important in the current context, as learning specialists deal with the challenge of building materials fast. The relevance of adult learning theories.

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Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning.

Dashe & Thomson

Social Learning Blog Training and Performance Improvement in the Real World Home About Bios Subscribe to RSS Surfing the Net: Waste of Time or Personal Directed Learning? Most of my PDL is done reading daily news articles, marketing blogs, adult learning webinars and more via the internet.

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If the spacing effect is so great, why is nobody using it?

Learning Pool

There are few things in learning theory that everyone in learning and development agrees on. Let me rephrase that: there is almost nothing in learning theory that everyone agrees on. Very few organizational learning programs make use of the spacing effect, currently. . We have a disputatious culture.

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What 21st Century Science Says About Memorable Learning Experience At Work

Thinkdom

Modern science, especially in learning & development, has come a long way in the last couple of decades. ,, Learning & behavioural sciences overlap more than we initially thought. Let’s first understand how human beings learn and then focus on some strategies that we can use to make professional learning stick.

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X Marks the Spot: What Lies Under the ‘X’ in LXP?

Learning Pool

And the Learning Pool whitepaper gives a detailed description of the many underlying forces, including changes in working patterns, employee attitudes, and expectations, technology and learning theory that have brought this way of thinking about learning to the fore. . Do these disputes really matter, though?

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5 steps to using the spacing effect in your next training

Learning Pool

These associations with learning theory and celebrity high-achievers (whom Gladwell dubbed ‘outliers’) might make spaced practice seem rather abstract and rarified; not for the rest of us. The post 5 steps to using the spacing effect in your next training appeared first on Learning Pool.

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Is your training effective – or just efficient?

Learning Pool

Learning theory, especially that area of it which focuses on the affective domain of learning (Kraftwohl, Damasio, Immordino-Yang, Shackleton-Jones, etc.) And that means improvements in performance and productivity leading to positive outcomes for the business. says that it’s absolutely essential.