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Adult learning theories for instructional designers: Andragogy

Matrix

Lately, I’ve seen a lot of the focus moving towards technology rather than learning itself. While trainers have to preferably keep up with the latest developments and trends, there is a lot to be saiz about adult learning and how it applies to successful L&D interventions. 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? Only recently has the training industry begun to tap into this realm of informal, social learning. I argued that they were both dead wrong.

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

Thinkdom

As an L&D Manager, how frequently do you initiate new learning programs for your team? And perhaps more importantly, how often do you conduct review sessions for previous learning & development initiatives? Learning is a complex process influenced by a variety of cognitive, emotional, and environmental factors.

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Learning Suite: The past of learning systems

Learning Pool

In the late 2010s, market analyst Josh Bersin noticed a significant shift in the way workplace professionals learned. But this concept came as something of a challenge to makers of learning systems. But the 20th Century was when organizational learning really took off. The computer age dawns in business. Quite possibly.

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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. But if there is one principle from learning science we definitely don’t want to forget, it’s the spacing effect.

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Enhancing learning retention with virtual reality technology

STRIVR

People are eager to learn on the job. Virtually every workplace poll shows that employees prefer to work for companies and within cultures that encourage and support ongoing learning. 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

It is used by individuals to build lasting knowledge, boost performance and achieve mastery in all areas of human activity. 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.