Researchers have shown that when we read, the brain looks for patterns. No surprise there as this is what the brain is brilliant at. In this post Paul explores 2 of these patterns. First and last letters and upper case vs lower case and the impact they have on our flip charts and need to spell correctly.
During the late 1990s I was working as an internal consultant for a large American organisation implementing lean manufacturing into a number of our European factories.
One of the concepts we were working on was the “visual workplace”
Wherever possible, this involved removing reams of work instructions and procedural manuals and replacing them with flow charts and [...]
Until fairly recently, on-line education amounted to little more than electronic versions of the old, off-line correspondence courses. That has really changed with arrival of broadband internet, social networking, web-based video, instant messaging and a whole smorgasbord of collaboration tools.
The full report, Evaluation of Evidence-Based Practices in Online Learning: a meta-analysis and review of online [...]
The other day a colleague took me to one side and said “You were very distracted during that session. What’s on your mind?”
His feedback was genuinely intended to be constructive but it took me back a bit as I had no idea why he would think that. I was fairly sure that I hadn’t been [...]
In this post a good friend of ours, Nigel Percy, explores nature’s networks and what we can learn from the flocks and shoals.
