Our job is to engage students in a manner that while the student internalizes the content, one’s self-efficacy gets built towards the outcomes. And the best way to do it is to build content that appeals to the learner.A learning style is a student's consistent way of responding to and using stimuli in the context of learning by appealing to the learner’s learning style.Learning styles are points along a scale that help us to discover the different forms of mental representations; however,...

One of the top attributes required for superior facilitation, is the ability to craft learning objectives… or as I would prefer to call them… performance objectives. I believe that if the objectives of the training session are not geared to help you perform, then it is no relevance. More often than not, I either find facilitators not setting objectives or setting the wrong objectives, or setting the objectives just for the heck of it. Now, each of these scenarios is dangerous and so in this...

Different types of learning exist and different instructional conditions can bring about this learning… The aim of any instructional designer is to not only make content relatable for the learners, but also make it enjoyable for the learner to feel inspired. Robert Gagne’s model provides a systematic process that helps educators and instructional designers develop strategies and create activities for training sessions. There are many ways to present and reorganize the training material to...

The ADDIE analysis phase serves a major role in the quality assurance process. It defines the project’s needs and ways to measure its success. If you skip ADDIE’s analysis phase, you can easily introduce mistaken assumptions into the project such as wrong focus that could lead the course to be boring and frustrating for the learners and to top it all you could end up with incomplete, redundant, or inaccurate content. If you rush to development, you may not catch those errors until you launch...

Episode 05: Forgetting Curve! Research says that people start forgetting within one hour of their training being completed. The research continues to state that this percentage dramatically increase with lapse of time. Personally speaking, the percentages and the spread across days may be questionable, but the figures are high for sure. A dirty secret of corporate training is that no matter how much you invest into training and development, nearly everything you teach to your employees will...

I like to think of it as a mindset that focuses on how to look at challenges around us. A mindset that can help us adapt to the process of being more mindful, and open to the right direction towards innovation. But while we do that, we must also know that it is no magic bullet. Methodologies and processes are important, but these are mere tools. What one needs to do is to get the right mindset to make that difference, and to really find the right direction towards the right solution. Its...

Does learning lead to people behaving differently? If not, then how do behaviours get formed? And if that is the case how do wrong behaviours get built? If we know how it gets built, then can behaviours be modified? In adult learning environment at workplace, how do we ensure that behaviours get modelled? And what about virtual-learning sessions… does the theory hold ground there! If these questions have bothered you and you never seem to get a hang of it, then you are at the right place....

This is Episode #2... this episode dives into Dr. John Keller’s ARCS model of Learner-Motivation! This episode answers some key questions regards performance…Why is learner-engagement important?What are the four key elements that go in towards motivating your learners?How to get the attention of our learners? (4:44)How to build relevance of the learning for our learners? (9:12)How to help build your learners’ confidence? (13:01)How to ensure that the learner is satisfied? (21:54) Subscribe,...

This episode dives into elements of Performance Improvement, inspired by Dr. Robert Mager's book, 'What Every Manager Should Know About Training'This episode answers some key questions regards performance…1. What is the importance of going past symptoms to look at performance related problems when ascertaining the need for intervention?2. What are the key elements that go in towards improving the performance of an individual?3. What is the right solution framework that will help your clients...

Welcome to The Theory of Learning of Podcast. Theory of Learning is a show about helping you become a superior facilitator. And we do this by introducing you to digestible nuggets on various concepts at play in a learning environment.