Enspire is testing a curriculum design concept by scripting the first episode in a binge-able learning experience.
A Learning Journey
Netflix-Like Bingeable College Curriculum? (Part 2)
Bringing classroom curriculum online in a way that makes it bingeable. Here’s how we’re doing it.
Netflix-like bingeable College Curriculum? ( Part1)
We’ve been working with the Innovation Lab of a major university to rethink their online curriculum delivery. They want to differentiate themselves from other colleges and universities and take their online curriculum to the next level. We’re using sprints, HIIT, and binging to come up with some exciting ideas.
Diversity and Inclusion Requires Corporate Cultural Support
We’ve been working on an exciting project for an international tech company. They want to make the topic of Diversity and Inclusion as much of a corporate journey as a personal one. They plan to foster understanding, empathy, and real change within their company, their employees, the communities they serve,
How We Learn: Confusion Is Good For Learning
Confusion is good for learning. Research has found that confusion creates a powerful drive for the brain to try to understand what is happening. It pushes us to learn “more efficiently, more deeply, more lastingly—as long as it’s properly managed,” according to the NOVA/PBS article The Science of Smart: The
How We Learn: We Live In Stories
We remember stories. Most of our experience, our knowledge and our thinking is organized as stories. We live in stories. When we hear a story we compare it to what we already have in memory, and note the similarities or differences. This allows us to index and understand new information
How We Learn: We Remember Emotions
So what do people remember? We remember emotions, our feelings, and the behavior of others. Research shows that emotions are important to learning. “Emotions form a critical piece of how, what, when, and why people think, remember, and learn,” says Mary Helen Immordino-Yang, EdD, associate professor of education, psychology, and neuroscience
How We Learn: Context Changes Perspective
Placing facts in context makes them more important to the learner. It gives the content relevance. Context lets learners connect concepts, and relate them to their own real world experiences, making it “easier to translate to the workplace” according to Nigel Paine, corporate learning expert and author of the The
How We Learn: The Brain Likes Patterns
The brain looks for patterns and fills in the blanks. It uses patterns to understand the relationship between things—putting them in context. “The human brain is a pattern-recognition machine. It evolved to identify related events or artifacts and connect them into a meaningful whole,” According to the NOVA article The
How We Learn: We Are Good At Forgetting
We are good at forgetting, sometimes forgetting 60-70% within one day of a learning event. So dumping a lot of information on learners is a bad idea. This is the big challenge of one-time learning events, where we separate work from learning. Forgetting does have a purpose, it eliminates unnecessary
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