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How Brain Remembers Single Events

Posted March 24th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 19, 2009) — Single events account for many of our most vivid memories – a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby’s birth. Until a recent UC Irvine discovery, however, scientists knew little about what happens inside the brain that allows you to remember such events.

In a study with rats, neuroscientist John Guzowski and colleagues found that a single brief experience was as effective at activating neurons and genes associated with memory as more repetitive activities.
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Using "Virtual Follow-up Sessions" to reinforce learning

Posted September 21st, 2009 by DanTobin
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Virtual Follow-Up Sessions to Reinforce Learning

How often have you attended a meeting or training session or taken an e-learning program and then failed at applying your learning to your job? Often this results from one of the following causes:
• Because the subject matter was brand new to you, you didn’t know what questions to ask in the class, so when you tried to apply your learning to your work, you find that you now have questions, but no resources available to answer those questions.

instructionaldesign.org

Posted July 1st, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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This site is designed to provide information about instructional design principles and how they relate to teaching and learning. Instructional design, also know as instructional systems design, is the analysis of learning needs and systematic development of instruction. Instructional designers often use instructional technology or educational technology as tools for developing instruction. Instructional design models typically specify a method, that if followed will facilitate the transfer of knowledge, skills and attitude to the recipient or acquirer of the instruction.

Large Group Interventions

Posted June 13th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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Large Group Interventions presents a comprehensive overview of twelve of the most powerful methods of large group interventions in use today.

This comprehensive guide describes the methods' origins, explores their differences and similarities, and presents vivid examples and case studies of each intervention method in action. Bring together as many as two thousand employees and customers in one location for activities as diverse as creating future direction, restructuring the organization, solving problems, and generating new ideas.

Accelerated Learning Course

Posted February 28th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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The days of delegates passively sitting listening to speaker after speaker should be a thing of the past.  So what is the alternative?
Well there are many different things you can do to engage, inspire and encourage learning to take place but they all centre on the effective application of sound Accelerated Learning Principles.  This programme gives you a rapid, entertaining and thoroughly interactive demonstration of these principles in action so that you can apply them to the design of your meetings.

Richer bouquet with Jimmy Hendrix

Posted September 14th, 2008 by maarten.vannest...
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Put the record on when presenting someone a cabernet Sauvignon, Rock will do. The wine will be more robust and taste stronger than if presented with no music. The same wine will taste much milder when enjoyed with a romantic ballad.  Listening to music can influence the taste of wine. ‘Cognitive Priming’ lies at the base of this effect, according to researchers at the Heriot-Watt University of Edinburgh.

Objectives to Outcomes: Your Contract With the Learner

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Ramsborg GC. Objectives to Outcomes:

Your Contract With the Learner.
Birmingham, Alabama
Professional Convention Management Association. 1993.
Second Edition, 1995.
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Lifelong Learning

Posted February 25th, 2008 by administrator
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Ramsborg GC.
"Lifelong Learning: The Adult Learner."
Chapter 1 in Professional Meeting Management.
Polivka EG, editor.
Birmingham, Alabama: Professional Convention Management Association.
Third Edition, 1996.
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The Fifth Discipline

Posted June 13th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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The Fith Discipline is a book by Peter Senge (a senior lecturer at MIT) focusing on group problem solving using the systems thinking method in order to convert companies into learning organizations. The five disciplines represent approaches (theories and methods) for developing three core learning capabilities: fostering aspiration, developing reflective conversation, and understanding complexity.

The 11 Laws of the Fifth Discipline
1) Today's problems come from yesterday's "solutions."
2) The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.

Student Diversity

Posted June 13th, 2009 by maarten.vannest...
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This practical handbook shows teachers how to use collaboration, assessment, and strategic teaching to meet the needs of all students — from ESL learners and children with disabilities to students with different learning styles. From relationship-building activities to ways to meet specific curriculum expectations, the book offers practical strategies and organizational frameworks that help teachers reach all students. It demonstrates how to:

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