New home page and the main site for Cognitive Flexibility Theory. You'll find many of my papers here, as well as my column in Educational Technology, entitled "The New Gutenberg Revolution: Radical New Learning, Thinking, Teaching, and Training with
"What I can help you do is avoid the common things that stop learning happen, or slow down the process.Learning takes time and it takes effort - on the part of the "teacher" and on the part of the "learner". By learning, I mean the process by which an individual is able to achieve something more quickly, or with higher quality, through gaining a skill, some knowledge, or starting to exhibit a particular behaviour."
ARCS provides a good summary of the issues to be considered when designing a learning intervention. In particular it makes sense to me when putting together a live online learning event.
Neuroscientists have found that an area known to be important for reading in the left visual cortex contains neurons that are specialized to process written words as whole word units. Although some theories of reading as well as neuropsychological and exp