Accelerating learning

1. Project: Enabling a learning organization

2. Principles
•Innovative Training techniques which are based on cutting edge learning paradigms and is in today’s context
•Tailor most effective tools required for a particular program
END GOAL:
“accelerated training which then accelerates real life performance and boosts retention”

3. Making Learning last
How do you massage the input and make it into a deeper insight
We are all like the Diamonds in the raw
How do we ensure the learning lasts and gets used

4. Ease of assimilation is not reflective of learning. Make participants experience techniques which force them to demonstrate learning True learning is inherently uncomfortable; it is the feeling of finally ‘feeling the key turning in the lock’
Embracing Discomfort
Retrieval | Interleaving | Spacing | Exposing to different situations

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
Learning is building on the existing scaffolding and sometimes changing the existing scaffolding – both require large doses of involvement

6. Discomfort
Student A - viewed lecture 3 times (1 hour each)
Student B - viewed once, actual problems and misery and then quick re view
Both rate : learning on score of 10
6 months later – who does better?

7. Two strategies
Student A follows this strategy- 3 hours subject A, 3 hours subject B
Student B - 1 hour A , 1 hour B,
45 mts A, 45 mts B, 30 mts A, 30 mts B
Who does better?

8. Two strategies -> Interleaving
Student A follows this strategy- 3 hours subject A, 3 hours subject B
Student B - 1 hour A , 1 hour B,
45 mts A, 45 mts B, 30 mts A, 30 mts B
Who does better?

9. Two teams to present to CEO on Saturday
Team A meets- 1 hour on Monday, 1 hour on Thursday, 30 mts on Friday
Team B meets - 4 hours teamwork on Friday
Who does better?

10. Spacing: two teams to present to CEO on Saturday
Team A - 1 hour on Monday, 1 hour on Thursday, 30 mts on Friday
Team B - 4 hours teamwork on Friday
Who does better?

11. Kirkpatrick stages

12. Both abstraction and active doing important for learning

13. Some suggested methodologies
1.Reflection/Diary - Deliberate practice/Learning diary and sharing
2.Teach back - Topics to explain in peer sharing format
3.Quizzes - after each sub module
4.Real life Activities /exercises –in similar and different scenarios – Day end homework
5.Interleaving the topics – In the design
6.Specific activities in the workshop- Scenarios/Role plays/Case studies/ Reflection and sharing exercises/ Presentations/
7.Quick check back after 2 weeks (spacing)
8.Pre-mortem scenario exercises
Pre workshop: Questionnaire administered and analysis of the same which is shared
Post workshop: Takeaways, Reflections and memory joggers & ongoing info dissemination, f/b and support