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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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Learning Suite: The past of learning systems

Learning Pool

But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off. Imagine a learning system with functionality to deliver personalization, individual learning paths, social and collaborative learning, games-based learning, sophisticated interactivity and adaptive learning, and AI-driven interactions with learners.

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Using VR as a tool for behavior analysis

STRIVR

Learning retention statistics show that the average learner forgets 70% of what they learn within an hour and 90% within a week — unless efforts are made to help them retain it. The Learning Guild, a NYC-based community that supports research into organizational learning — calls this “the dirty secret of corporate training.”

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

Dashe & Thomson

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Enhancing learning retention with virtual reality technology

STRIVR

Learning retention statistics show that the average learner forgets 70% of what they learn within an hour and 90% within a week — unless efforts are made to help them retain it. The Learning Guild, an NYC-based community that supports research into organizational learning — calls this “the dirty secret of corporate training.”

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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. Technology makes this relatively easy to do with sequencing tools such as those inside Learning Pool’s Stream Learning Suite.