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#TwistedTropes 24: Maslow's awkward hierarchy

Learning with e's

Photo from Wikimedia Commons Everything was awkward about the famous psychologist Abraham Maslow. As a young man, Maslow had very few friends, so he made books his companions, married one of his cousins by accident, and then spent the rest of his life trying to discover the meaning of life. Fermat's dodgy last theorem 18.

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Top 3 Instructional Design Interview Tips

Ashley Chiasson

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. If you do development, showcase samples of projects you’ve built out. These are things that as an Instructional Designer you will use daily, but likely subconsciously, so before you head into an interview, brush up on things like: Blooms Taxonomy. Behaviourism/Cognitivism/Constructivism.

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Donald Clark on training departments…

Jay Cross's Informal Learning

I argued that training is mired in old, faddish theory; Bloom, Gagne, Maslow, Kirkpatrick – train the trainer courses are still full of old behaviourist theory (killed stone dead by Chomsky in 1959) trapping us in 50 year old theories that holds the industry back. Few ever get near level 4, where the real action lies.