Jul
31
31
How People Learn
The Intelligent Design Series || Part 01 Making correct predictions in pursuit of a goal is a pretty good definition of “intelligence”. Steven Pinker Mistakes Read More →
Aug
10
10
Bad Ideas in Learning
One of the talks I give regularly is a rant about various bad ideas in learning that I don’t like. I initially started doing this Read More →
Aug
3
3
A Horoscope for Creatives by Adobe and IBM
IBM recently teamed up with Adobe to offer a free course on aesthetic design on the IBM SkillsBuilder platform. As a fan of design, IBM, Read More →
Feb
15
15
Learning Experience Design Reading List
The NIIT learning experience design team has put together a list of our favorite readings. If you have suggestions for other things we should include, Read More →
Apr
7
7
Why GameWorks by NIIT Standardized on Unity 3D
Unity 3D is an industrial strength game development engine that lets us create and deploy high end games and simulations. Unity was designed with a Read More →
Nov
5
5
Learning Styles: Saying Goodbye to a Shibboleth of Instructional Design
If you gave a prize for the most intuitively appealing idea in education, it would probably go to the theory of “learning styles.” The gist Read More →
Dec
11
11
When it’s not up to you: compliance training and decision-making
Training, as we think of it, involves decision-making. We design training for a particular job role by delineating the set of decision-making contexts—tasks—that make up the Read More →
Nov
1
1
Failure-driven Learning versus “Coloring Inside the Lines”
In my last post, I talked about the most common challenge to the theory of failure-driven learning. In this post, I want to address another frequent challenge, Read More →
Oct
26
26
Failure-driven Learning versus “Success-driven learning”
The heart of our pedagogical approach is the theory of “failure-driven learning,” which says, in a nutshell, that learning happens only when the world does something different Read More →
Oct
19
19
Reading John Dewey
John Dewey is arguably the greatest philosopher of education the world has seen. Unfortunately, for most of us, his stilted, formal prose causes unpleasant flashbacks Read More →