Pre-order · Published 10 September
Learning
Sciences:
A Practitioner's Guide
Part primer, part field guide. A practical tour of the learning sciences for the people who have to make learning work at work.
By Tom McDowall
Why does so much training make so little difference?
People are central to everything we do, and yet how much do we know about how they work, and why they work that way? People may sit at the centre of our work, but our understanding of them is thinner than it ought to be.
Inside the book
The questions practitioners keep bumping into
This book explores the practical application of the learning sciences, drawn from a number of different fields. It won't make you a scientist or a researcher. It will give you the foundation you need to get the most out of your people.
- 01What learning actually is
- 02Attention
- 03Cognitive load
- 04Memory, forgetting, and retrieval
- 05Schema and mental models
- 06Spacing and structuring training
- 07Retrieval, elaboration, and generation
- 08Getting learning to stick
L&D teams
Design and evaluate learning that survives contact with the real workplace.
HR & people teams
Understand the evidence behind how people learn, remember and change.
Leaders
Get more from your people by understanding how they actually work.
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About the author
Tom McDowall
Tom McDowall is an L&D consultant, writer, speaker, and lover of nerdy stuff, whose work focuses on leadership, learning, and organisational performance. He works with L&D, HR, and leadership teams around the world, helping them get the most from their people.