Enter any work zone. We find different kinds of people there. Those who look bored and disengaged, who come to work because they have to. And, those who look tensed, anxious, exhausted and overworked, who desperately wait for that much-needed break. For both these classes, work is far from inspiring. There's nothing to look forward... Continue Reading →

The biggest challenge to getting a perennial learning mindset is OURSELVES. Our mindscape is so dimensional and vast that tracking all its subliminal processes becomes quite difficult, if not impossible. Things happen on a pre-programmed mode and decisions get taken on an automated note. Complacency, for instance, is one of the common mind-traps most of... Continue Reading →

Cognitive load is a necessary ingredient of an impactful course design. Acquisition of indepth knowledge happens only as an upshot of successfully overcoming friction, difficulties and challenges. But for these stimulants, the learning can possibly turn into a damp squib. As much as boosting inherent cognitive load is key to designing a successful learning experience,... Continue Reading →

Learning has sloughed off its previous conventional, traditional style of acquiring new forms of knowledge. It has started breaching the 'limited information' channels, flowing in all possible directions seeking and absorbing intelligence of its choice. All thanks to the evolution of technology that has made this possibility possible! "In only one generation we have gone... Continue Reading →

Break the ice, first. Look at accountants. What do they do to hit it big in their profession? They think finance, they breathe finance, and they live finance. The more they do this, the more seasoned they become in their subject. Now, look at Learning Designers from this perspective. They're at the other end of... Continue Reading →

One of the classic differences between theory and practice (when the theory gets actioned) is, when we see an action, we pretty much see a defined form of theory executed well... while the theory by itself could continue to remain abstract.   Okay!  Let me put it this way... We wade through an ocean of theory, cull the... Continue Reading →

UPBRINGING! That's what instantly comes to my mind when I think of behaviorism. As is obvious, children - though inherently quite uncorrupt in their manifestations - wouldn't know how to discriminate positive from negative... and so, can get innocently drawn towards a negative act as much as they do towards a positive one. For them,... Continue Reading →