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Accelerated Learning: Using Adult Learning Styles to Engage Training Participants Anyone who trains and educates adult learners must be familiar with how to effectively use accelerated learning (active learning) strategies related to adult learning styles or modalities to aid participants in gaining the knowledge and skills needed to perform on the job. Learners do so through … Read more
The Benefits of Engaging Adult Learners In An Accelerated Learning Environment Accelerated learning (experiential learning) is based on adult learners being an active part of the learning environment. Through learner, engagement facilitators help take them on a unique journey that incorporates all the cognitive, physical, and emotional aspects of learning outlined in a number of adult … Read more
Brain Research Points To The Value Of Using Music In Accelerated Learning Training Environments It has been said that music soothes the savage beast. Whether that is true or not is irrelevant. What is important is that brain-based learning researchers have found a direct correlation between certain types of music and brain functioning. In 1993, … Read more
Creative Accelerated Learning Training Activities Aid Adult Learners A key element of accelerated or experiential learning is that participants are actively engaged in the learning process and working with one another. One of the easiest ways to accomplish this is to build movement and engagement opportunities into your training design. Creative Accelerated Learning Training Activities … Read more
What Is Accelerated Learning? Accelerated learning (A.L.) (a.k.a. experiential learning) is based on an educational concept called suggestopedia that was developed by Bulgarian psychiatrist – psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov. The goal of the teaching and learning process was to reduce the time it took to learn a foreign language. What Is Accelerated Learning? – The Creative … Read more
Accelerated Learning Techniques Can Lead Adult Learners to Increased Transfer of Training No matter what term(s) you apply to accelerated learning (e.g. brain-based learning, active learning, discovery learning, experiential learning, interactive learning, or transformational learning), the ideas and techniques behind the concept are solid. Accelerated Learning Techniques Can Lead Adult Learners to Increased Transfer of … Read more
Accelerated Learning Related Quote – Edward T. Hall Accelerated learning has been found to be a solid catalyst for adult learning. By actively engaging adult learners and tapping into what brain-based learning researchers have found related to how the brain learns and most effectively functions, trainers and adult educators can positively influence the learning process. … Read more
Combining Accelerated Learning and Brain-Based Research to Benefit Learners Brain-based learning theorists and researchers have been working for decades to discover new information on how to effectively increase learning and memory in adult learners. Some of the things that they have found most effective involve active learner engagement techniques and strategies related to accelerated learning. … Read more
Enhancing Adult Learning Using Techniques from Accelerated Learning Accelerated learning techniques have been used by trainers and adult educators for decades as a means to help stimulate learning and actively engage training participants and students in the learning process. Based on a theory of learning concepts called suggestopedia that were developed by Bulgarian psychotherapist Georgi Lozanov, the … Read more
Using Accelerated Learning with Adult Learners Accelerated learning involves tapping into individual learning styles or modalities (e.g. visual, auditory, or kinesthetic) in order to help adult learners gain, retain, recall, and better use what they experience. In the process of actively engaging learners and their preferred style(s), you are better able to help reinforce learning … Read more