Tag Archives: creation
When the brain goes off piste part 2
This is the 2nd post exploring two powerful features of the human brain. Despite not knowing the answers, Paul expands on the questions: “When is it OK for the trainer to fill in gaps in the learner’s current knowledge” and “Can you train in a subject you know nothing about”?
Posted in Theory Also tagged accelerated learning, consunption, dave meier, facilitation, NLP 4 Comments
Study Finds That Online Education Beats the Classroom
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 [...]
Posted in Clickables Also tagged behaviour, challenges, change, Comunication, consunption, facilitation 6 Comments
When the brain goes “off piste”
Richard Potts is director of the Human Origins Programme at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History where he studies how humans evolved over millions of years to be the dominant species on the earth. The first thing this tells us is that, to fit that lot in, he may have the largest business [...]
Posted in Theory Also tagged accelerated learning, behaviour, brain, challenges, design, facilitation 2 Comments
The 70:30 target
Inspired by Dave Meier and Kimberley Hare, Paul examines the 70:30 principle of great great facilitation and the shift from "sage on the stage" to "guide on the side". Then challenges us about how we use the extra time we create for ourselves (and our learners)!
Posted in Practice Also tagged accelerated learning, consumption, dave meier, facilitation, Flow, questions, state 10 Comments
Giving up in order to succeed?