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Thursday, October 23, 2008
Clocking it: Express highway online learning - Annie Hayes, Training Zone UK
There are those that advocate the benefits of bite-size learning as a means of controlling time and squeezing learning into manageable chunks. It's about delivering a solution in a digestible format – a sandwich rather than a seven course meal. Colin Thompson, visiting university professor and chairman of Oxford College of Management Studies says some intellectual weight is added to the concept when we relate it to psychologist George Miller's famous research that seemed to suggest that people could only remember the 'magic number, seven plus or minus two'. "The cavalier way this research has been interpreted over the years has suggested that people can generally remember between five and nine items of information. More recent research, however, has pointed out that Miller was discussing very small items of information that differed only on one dimension – for example, different pitches of sound. There have been suggestions that in fact the magic number for most people might be as low as three," says Thompson. And as Thompson says, if we understand this, it would seem that offering a small number of easily remembered pieces of information is something that training providers should bear in mind when constructing their training packages.
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