The Interplay of Emotions & Learning
Our goal should be to create a student who moves up the knowledge axis, along an “excelsior spiral that climbs the tree of knowledge” – Barry Kort Rob & Chris’ debate about whether learning styles...
View ArticleNeurobiology and Medical Education
Insights from neurobiology can be applied to medical education right now. Key concepts from neurobiology that we can use include: the need for repetition reward and reinforcement visualisation active...
View ArticleCROCODILE Learning
This is a guest post by Dr Casey Parker (@BroomeDocs) of BroomeDocs.com So what is a CROCODILE? Not a large estuarine reptile – but a way to learn from our mistakes and adverse outcomes. Confidential...
View ArticleAre you wrong about learning?
Earlier this year Wired magazine interviewed psychology professor Robert Bjork, the director of the UCLA Learning and Forgetting Lab. The article highlighted a few widely held beliefs about learning...
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