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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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Is your training effective – or just efficient?

Learning Pool

Learning technologies have powered a significant increase in the ability of L&D to deliver learning at scale over the last two decades. However, it can be argued that these changes have not lessened in any way the training world’s tendency to focus on efficiency over effectiveness. appeared first on Learning Pool.

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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? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew?

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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. When learning really matters, we quite naturally use spaced practice. . But ordinary people deploy spaced practice every day.

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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

This wave is still rippling through the industry, but to truly understand the shape of this wave and what is happening to the design of learning suites today we must look out how this disconnect between buyers and sellers came about. Training in the 20th Century. But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off.

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