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Designing for Learning Impact

Upside Learning

It turns out that the way learning happens is to strengthen connections in the brain. 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. For multiple practices, there are additional constraints.

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The Performance Management Myth

The Performance Improvement Blog

Galagan references the writing of David Rock, author of Your Brain at Work. Based on Carol Dweck ’s work at Stanford, Rock and his co-authors say that employees can be divided into two groups: those who believe talent is “fixed” and those who believe people can develop their brains and abilities.

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

Dashe & Thomson

Brain Rules for Learning: Who Knew? I live and breathe Minnesota sports and love golfing, boating, skiing, traveling, and attending live music. View all posts by Paul → ← Do Instructional Designers in the Social Digital Age need an Engineering Background? We All Did.

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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. Yet the need to respect how our brains work is a continuum.

Cognitive 100
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Reflections on 2017

Clark Quinn

Contextual learning, whether building fake or leveraging real, is a necessary adjunct to our learning. My work continues to be both organizational learning, but also higher education. Interestingly, I spoke to an academic audience about the realities of workplace learning! One AR post of mine even won an award !

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Functional Stupidity at Work

The Performance Improvement Blog

Companies that Spicer and Alvesson studied, hired smart people but then these people, because of company culture, were discouraged from using their brains. Chris Argyris referred to these “stupid” behaviors as “organizational defenses”. In other words, being stupid about one’s work.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | August 13, 2021

Mike Taylor

This paper by John Sweller suggests a causal relation between the emphasis on inquiry learning and reduced academic performance. Your Brain Does Something Amazing Between Bouts of Intense Learning. Interspersing rest with practice during training is advantageous for learning a new skill.