Last time we talked about Kirkpatrick’s model for evaluation and how important it is to use more that just level one especially in today’s economic climate .
While I was writing that piece I found myself getting more and more annoyed and, as I worked through why, the keyboard was taking more and more punishment, the [...]
… but it is essential
A couple of weeks ago Ally and I spent an extremely enjoyable day with the Brain Friendly Learning Group, a UK networking group for brain friendly trainers set up by Stella Collins.
In the morning we ran a session about music in the training room (there will be much more on this [...]
As trainers we are constantly looking for fresh and interesting ways to subdivide our groups into smaller groups and over the years I guess we all have our favourites.
So what are yours?
As a starter for 10, here are my top 10 (in no particular order!) that I have begged, borrowed, designed and stolen:
A continuum of [...]
Edgar Dale was a US educationist and professor of educations at Ohio State University. In 1946 he developed his most famous model, the cone of learning.Since then it has been quoted frequently, far and wide as the definitive evidence for how we retain information when delivered in various styles and mediums and has informed how to design training courses in specific ways.
This is unfortunate, because the figures we associate with the model are meaningless. In this post, Paul explains why and encourages to be careful when sharing ‘facts’ with others.
Following a link a few months ago I found this facinating article written by R.Douglas Fields on Scientific American website called “Watching the brain learn”
It seems that only half of the brain is “grey matter” The rest is made up of relatively un-researched white matter which, as this article says, appears to be extremely influential [...]
