LEARNING HOW TO BUILD BETTER LEARNERSSTEVE NGUYEN | DegreedDirector of Client Success degreed.com/espnguyen @espnguyen @degreed

CONNECTED AGE

CONSUMPTION GAP

PROLIFERATION OF PRODUCTFEATURES AND COMPLEXITY

ABILITY OF HUMANS TO CONSUME FEATURES

HOW WELL DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW YOUR WORKERS LEARN?

Source: Towards Maturity, 2015 Benchmark Report, 11/2015

86% of best-in-class L&D teams actively seek to understand how employees learn what they need to do their jobs.

BEST-IN-CLASS AVERAGE

86%

30%Only 30% of average learning teams do.

ARE YOU READY FORTOMORROW’S LEARNERS?

Source: ATD / i4cp, Learners of the Future: Taking Action Today to Prevent Tomorrow’s Talent Crisis, 12/2015

Only 38% of L&D professionals think their organizations are readyfor the learners of the future.

LET’S PAUSE TO UNDERSTAND…HOW LEARNERS LEARN

LEARNING HOW TO LEARN:

Barbara Oakley, PhD, PEProfessor of Engineering, Oakland University, Rochester, MichiganVisiting Scholar, University of California, San Diego

Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects

Focused mode

Diffuse mode

Focused Mode Diffuse Mode

IT TAKES TIME

Weight lifter Sultan Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti

Focusing intently in ONE session to figure something out can create unnecessary challenges

PROCRASTINATE

Insular Cortex!

PROCRASTINATION

PROCRASTINATION – A HABIT

Do NOT focus on finishing a task

• Turn off all distractions• Set timer for 25 minutes• Focus• Reward!

THE POMODORO TECHNIQUE

Xie, Lulu, Hongyi Kang, Qiwu Xu, Michael J Chen, Yonghong Liao, Meenakshisundaram Thiyagarajan, John O’Donnell, et al. "Sleep Drives Metabolite Clearance from the Adult Brain." Science 342, no. 6156 (2013): 373-77.

SLEEP

Yang, G, et al. "Sleep promotes branch-specific formation of dendritic spines after learning." Science 344, 6188 (2014): 1173-1178.

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Working memory

Focused mode

Working memory

Long term memory

Qin, S., S. Cho, T. Chen, M. Rosenberg-Lee, D. C. Geary, and V. Menon. "Hippocampal-Neocortical Functional Reorganization Underlies Children's Cognitive Development." Nat Neurosci (Aug 17 2014).

PRACTICE MAKES PERMANENT

Raw informationInformation is chunked

and understood

  

   

  

  

  

  

WORKING MEMORY AND CHUNKING

Focused thinking

Diffuse thinking

A library of chunks

Creative!

POOR MEMORY

“Slow” thinker Maryam Mirzakhani

PASSION

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