Author Archives: Mike Taylor

Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory

I’m all for an afternoon nap just like back in kindergarten; a chocolate milk and then a quick cat nap. Where do I sign up? English-speaking students’ ability to remember Chinese characters they were taught just before a nap (and some without a nap): Upon awakening, they took a multiple-choice test of Chinese words they’dContinueContinue reading “Napping Boosts Sophisticated Memory”

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Improving Long-term Learning Through Spacing Of Lessons

Very interesting research that says “increasing the time between the study sessions reduced the rate of forgetting. This reduction in forgetting was very large.” They go on to give some recommendations and other practical information. This is a “must read”. practice makes perfect" and "timing is everything…Proper spacing of lessons, the researchers report, can dramaticallyContinueContinue reading “Improving Long-term Learning Through Spacing Of Lessons”

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Deeper Instructional Design

Wendy’s blog notes from a presentation by Clark Quinn is a great follow-up to my recent post about Donald Clark’s comment regarding “clip arting” courses to death. Among the points I’d highlight here are: We can’t “create” learning- We can design environments conducive to learning. Can’t dump a bunch of knowledge on people and expectContinueContinue reading “Deeper Instructional Design”

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Learning Communities List : eLearning Technology

Tony Karrer has posted a list of learning communities.  A few on LinkedIn and Ning; a couple email lists. These look like pretty good places to start if you’re looking for this kind of stuff. I’m already following most of these but there’s at least one that I’m headed to check out. Although it’s tiedContinueContinue reading “Learning Communities List : eLearning Technology”

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Rapid tools: more bubble machine than bubble

“Clip art it to death”.  When I read that line is Donald Clark’s post I thought he must be seeing the same types of things that I’ve been seeing a lot of in my organization lately.  Another phrase I’m reminded of when it comes to clip art, animations and other distracting items is “Just becauseContinueContinue reading “Rapid tools: more bubble machine than bubble”

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