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Adult students are bored by a lecturer who doesn't know how to bring a boring topic to life.

Tip #880: A Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy

This Tip focuses on the revised Bloom’s taxonomy and my epiphany about the level when lecture is appropriate. Bloom’s Taxonomy Knowledge was originally the first

July 6, 2021

Tip #833: Interactive Virtual Activities

This Tip considers seven interactive virtual activities, six of which come from Cindy Huggett in her books. I added the seventh. “The planned activities are

August 3, 2020

Art projects can be converted to a virtual medium using a white board.

Tip #830: Virtual Learning Activities

This tip is about converting classroom activities into virtual learning activities using different platform tools. A major concern about virtual training is how to keep

July 13, 2020

Tip #809: Fact or Fiction? Lecture is Best for Large Groups

This tip answers the question whether lecture is better than other learning activities when training large groups. Fiction. The size of the group has very

February 10, 2020

Tip #789: Follow TRIZ to Innovation

“It’s about creating a process that systematically understands the current situation- the constraints (time, money, capabilities, and capacity) and attributes that already exist today- and

September 9, 2019

Step #789: Follow TRIZ to Innovation

“It’s about creating a process that systematically understands the current situation- the constraints (time, money, capabilities, and capacity) and attributes that already exist today- and

September 9, 2019

Tip #739: Only three hours

Imagine that you have only three hours to convert die-hard lecturers into facilitative trainers. What content and activities would you use to introduce and model

September 17, 2018

Amman Travelogue – 2017

Hello, This is my first full day in Amman. I’ve spent most of it sleeping, since I can’t sleep on the trip over. It is

March 16, 2017

Tip #659: Generating Ideas with SCAMPER

There is an idea-generating method called SCAMPER that puts a spin on brainstorming. SCAMPER stands for Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to another use, Eliminate,

February 21, 2017

Tip #630: How Tradition and Familiarity Can Curb Learning

“Even in the familiar there can be surprise and wonder.” Tierney Gearon Andra May has identified ten cognitive biases. We have considered the first four biases: Confirmation,

July 18, 2016

Tip #613: Brainwriting

“Brainwriting is brainstorming on steroids.” Luciano Passuello Brainstorming is not as effective as we thought. We discussed “question-storming” as a better alternative in Tip #610.

March 21, 2016

Tip #610: Question-Storming

“One does not begin with answers. One begins by asking, ‘What are our questions?’ ” Peter Drucker Brainstorming is a familiar and convenient problem-solving activity.

February 29, 2016

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