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Learning is both a natural, intuitive activity all humans engage in and a complicated process we haven’t yet fully appreciated or understood. While there are plenty of nuances and neuroscientific details that factor in, fundamentally learning requires three elements: motivation, time, and effort. In this episode of the Leading Learning Podcast, number 425, co-hosts Jeff …
Practice is a powerful tool for learning, and, when you stop to look at what you do on a daily or weekly basis, you’ll see how common and natural practice is in so many realms. But too often learning businesses don’t incorporate practice into their portfolio of offerings. In this episode of the Leading Learning …
Dr. Megan Sumeracki is an associate professor of psychology at Rhode Island College and co-founder of The Learning Scientists, a group of cognitive psychological scientists aiming to make scientific research on learning more accessible to students, teachers, and other educators. Her area of expertise is in human learning and memory, and in applying the science …
As learning businesses, it’s critical that we know how to empower our learners in order to achieve long-term success. That’s because empowerment is at the core of a successful business model for all learning businesses. So how can we best empower learners? It starts by committing to understanding and applying what we know related to …
Understanding how to learn and master new and difficult skills is essential in today’s rapidly changing world. And Scott H. Young, a committed lifelong learning, blogger, and author of the newly released book, Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career, has spent the past decade becoming an expert on how to successfully …
One of the major positive trends in adult lifelong learning over the past several years is that more organizations have recognized the need to do a much better job of grounding learning experiences in what we actually know about how adults learn. In a nutshell, we need to move away from the excessive emphasis on …
Reflection is perhaps one of the most important practices we can engage in as learners but most of us aren’t taking the time to do it. It is also a key element that distinguishes the best learners and leaders—so why aren’t more of us doing it? In this special 25th episode of the Leading Learning …
Prior to the 2015 Leading Learning Symposium we launched a series of Stream of Conference™ (SoC) videos series, a collection of brief, informal videos that provided content related to the symposium. While we don’t plan to publish those here going forward, I thought I would share the first one, partly because we are we’re also used SoC to …
