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Designing for Learning Impact

Upside Learning

We’re focusing on learning impact here, so they’re not being directly addressed. Still, cognitive science and design practices give us guidance there, as needed. So, we need to space learning, reactivating the learning, across days, which isn’t like much of what we actually see in most organizational learning.

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The Cognitive Science Behind Learning

CLO Magazine

For instance, there’s quite a lot of hype about neuroscience implications for learning, but researchers are quick to point out that most of the important results come from another level. There are levels of analysis; neural is one, but the next level up is the cognitive level. The Cognitive Umbrella.

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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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Theory or Research?

Clark Quinn

For instance, the work on worked examples comes from John Sweller’s Cognitive Load theory. The approach I discuss in things like my Learning Experience Design workshops is a synthesis of theories as well. It’s an eclectic mix including the above mentioned, Cognitive Flexibility, Elaboration, ARCS, and more.

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More Marketing Malarkey

Clark Quinn

In it, I point out that the myth about attention span came from a misinterpreted study, and that our cognitive architecture doesn’t change that fast. Also, in general, learning doesn’t work as well when it’s just ‘fun’, unless it’s “hard fun” Enlightening isn’t any better.

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Thinking Strategically

Clark Quinn

This is harder than the ‘information dump and knowledge test’ that too often characterizes organizational learning, which brings up two issues: 1) formal learning should be reserved for when it absolutely, positively has to be in the head, and 2) putting information in the world when possible. .

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Aligning Learning

Clark Quinn

Education tends to be about long term learning relationships (typically at least a half year to several years), versus the short-term relationships (e.g. an hour to several days) in organizational learning. Our brains learn in particular ways that are unaffected by the curricular needs.

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