Paul reflects on a highly enjoyable afternoon with a client designing a 2 day training session around a very specific process. By challenging the common design practice of training the sequential process in a logical fashion, he demonstrates how to increase effectiveness by beginning with the learning outcomes.
Over Christmas I spent some time trawling the interweb for interesting blogs, thoughts and ideas and I came across these.
I really love the idea of unlearning that which isn’t useful any more or is unsupported or is no longer relevent in todays world.
Ally and I have already posted some “debunking” posts and I guess these [...]
While reading some interesting blogs the other day a thought gently emerged in my foggy brain which then led to a question.
Is brain friendly learning, and pehaps more importantly recall, about understanding or remembering?
It’s subtle but I believe it strikes at the core of what brain friendly learning is all about.
After pondering this question for [...]
This week we bring you a two-part interview with Stella Collins, director and consultant at Stellar Learning and co-founder of Brain in Business. In part one, Stella and Ally talk about what Brain Friendly Learning means for Stella, how to engage learners and the difference between fun and enjoyment!
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Our understanding of how the brain stores and retrieves data is still in the early stages of development. What is clear though, is that the result of learning (memory?) is stored in many places in the brain. Rather than being a problem, this provides us with many ways of accessing memory when we want to [...]
