Top 10 Lessons learned From "Design for How People Learn"

Top 10 Lessons  learned From "Design for How People Learn"

1. Application

Even amazing classes are useless if the learner doesn’t do something different afterward.

Use your improved capabilities and take back to the real world. Let them help you do the things you need or want to do.

2. Learning factors

If learning is a journey, what’s the gap between where you are and where you need to be?

Sometimes that gap is knowledge, but just as often the gap can be skills, motivation, habit, or environment.

3. Goal

The best learning experiences are designed with a clear destination in mind.

Learn how to determine your destination with accuracy.

4. Origin of motivation

You want to consider the question of what you want from a few different angles.

Think about why you are there, what you want to get out of the experience, what you don’t want, and what you like (which may be different from what you want).

5. Learning difficulty

The fast parts learn, propose, and absorb shocks; the slow parts remember, integrate, and constrain.

The fast parts get all the attention. The slow parts have all the power.

6. Learning associations

Associations will make it easier to retrieve the information. If you don’t have a good shelving system for this word, you can create a mnemonic for it.

The more ways you have to find a piece of information, the easier it is to retrieve.

7. Feedback

If you use the Context, Challenge, Activity, and Feedback model, or if you design a curriculum around structured goals, you have lots of built-in feedback points.

You should look for opportunities to increase the frequency of feedback whenever possible.

8. Learning to change habits

If for example, you are trying to quit smoking, you need more than the goal “I’m going to stop smoking”. You need to implement the intention of how to actually do it. So you could say: If I get a craving, I will distract myself.

9. Memory

Doing something with the learned information causes you to retain it longer and increases the likelihood that that information will be encoded into long-term memory.

10. Achievements

Celebrate you achievements.

Using your knowledge to do meaningful things while still learning about it will greatly increase your motivation.