by Margie Meacham | Nov 11, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
Workers learn more in the coffee room than in the classroom.” – Jay Cross While studies vary on the exact percentage, most learning in today’s workplace is informal. In this post, we’ll distinguish between informal and formal learning and explore ways to identify and...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 10, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
Last year, on November 6, we lost one of the true pioneers of learning science, Jay Cross. Jay was a friend and mentor and was slated to appear at our first Brain Matters Online Conference. He died unexpectedly just two days before he was going to speak about his...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 10, 2016 | LearningToGo Blog
November 9 is Carl Sagan’s birthday. Astronomer, physicist and science interpreter for the world, he created the first Cosmos series and inspired a generation to wonder about the cosmos inside and outside of our bodies. He was sometimes criticized by his colleagues...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 10, 2016 | Events, Past Events
Your brain dedicates about 25% of its entire processing power to vision, which probably explains why we understand images 60,000 times faster than words or numbers. So why are we filling our training materials with so much text when we can tell the story better in...
by Margie Meacham | Nov 8, 2016 | Events, Past Events
If you have kept abreast of the literature in the past few years, it is fairly common knowledge that there are not enough people to fill the gaps left by the Baby Boomers as they exit the workforce. While most research and articles which address this looming crisis...
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