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Maximize Your Learning Experience
Dr. Andres Fortino emphasizes that maximizing learning involves frequent practice and recall exercises to combat the forgetting effect, as research shows a significant percentage of information is forgotten within hours or days. To enhance retention, learners should seek environments with spaced review events like quizzes and assignments, reinforcing the material over time. Long-term retention relies heavily on post-training activities, making it crucial for individuals to engage actively in their learning process.
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- 2. The Key to Maximizing Learning “Practice makes perfect.” • Your learning experience should be orchestrated to include many practice periods • One powerful way to improve learning is to counter the “forgetting effect” with repetitive recall exercises: –Frequent short quizzes, assignments, labs, exams
- 3. The Forgetting Curve • How much do people forget? • Research on forgetting shows that –within one hour, people will have forgotten an average of 50 percent of the information you presented. – Within 24 hours, they have forgotten an average of 70 percent of new information, – Within a week, forgetting claims an average of 90 percent of it. • Some people remember more or less, but in general, the situation is bad: no matter how much you invest into training and development, nearly everything you learn will be forgotten.
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- 11. Seek Experiences That “Booster” • These booster events improve retention for the entire learning experience, and not just for the particular topics in the quiz question • It’s a “halo effect” --just a few booster experiences can enhance the retention of the entire learning session If your goal is to produce long-term retention, and if your goal is to produce behavior change, then what you do after training is more important than what you do during training. • If you do nothing, people will forget most of your training • If you use the booster experiences presented, you will signal to your brain that that particular information is important and, in turn, you will be far more likely to remember it – you have learned
- 12. In Conclusion • To learn: – Look for courses that have lots of quizzes and homework assignments and labs –Take every quiz offered to you – Repeat the quizzes until you get it all right – Do your homework – Do every lab offered to you – And above all it must be your brain that does the work (don’t use someone else’s work)
- 13. Dr. Andres Fortino Bio • Dr. Andres Fortino is a consultant in the innovation industry and is currently the principal with Fortino Global Education. • He teaches big data analytics and Innovation and Entrepreneurship at NYU School of Professional Studies. He leads seminars in data visualization and business analytics at the American Management Association. •He served as Dean of Academic Affairs at DeVry College of New York and as Associate Provost for Corporate Graduate Programs at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in electrical engineering from City College of New York and a PhD in electrical engineering from CUNY. Before joining NYU-Poly he served as Dean of the Marist College School of Management. • He is a Senior Member of IEEE and a Distinguished Speaker in Computer Science with the IEEE. He is a Fulbright Specialist in Technology Management. His major interests are innovation, creativity and data analytics and data visualization as well as technology innovation management.
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