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Brain-based Principles
For Maximum Retention
in the Virtual Classroom
August 17, 2017
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Webinar Objectives
• Apply six principles from
neuroscience to virtual classroom
designs
• Prepare learners’ brains to receive
and act on new information
• Leverage brain-based practices that
help learners break old habits and
enhance their skills
• Reinforce and extend learning beyond
the virtual classroom to the job
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Neuroplasticity
• Brains adapt and change
• More connections between neurons = faster
processing speeds
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Quiz #1
Moving short-term memory to long-term memory
occurs in which region of the brain?
• Amygdala
• Ventral system
• Hippocampus
• Neocortex
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Quiz #2
How many hours of repetition are required for the
brain to form new synapses?
• < 1 hour
• 1 hour
• 1.5 hours
• 2 hours
• 2.5 hours
• 3 hours
• 4 hours
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Quiz #3
The amygdala is the brain’s _______________
system?
• Detail
• Reward
• Fear
• Physical functions
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Quiz #4
The ventral system is the brain’s ___________
system?
• Detail
• Fear
• Physical functions
• Reward
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Quiz #5
The hippocampus helps us make sense of our….
• Environment (Where am I? What’s important?)
• Emotions (What am I feeling?)
• Safety (What are the threats?)
• Rewards (What will I gain?)
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Quiz #6
The neocortex (3/4 of the brain) helps us
generalize…
• Human emotions
• Factual information
• Electrical signals
• Kinesthetic learning
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Expectations Poll
What do you want to know or be able to differently
as a result of participating in this webinar?
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Just Curious
Did you attend the first brain-based learning
principles webinar?
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Learning Process
Learn it
Encode it
Recall it
Apply it
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Learning Retention
“an ability to retain things in mind; specifically : a
preservation of the aftereffects of experience and
learning that makes recall or recognition possible”
Merriam Webster
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it Up
Use it
or Lose it
Test
and
Retest
Sleep on it
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
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Learner Readiness
How do you prepare
participants for the
learning experience?
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ABCs of Preparation
CognitiveBehaviorAttitude
Positive
Statements
Terminal
Objectives
Knowledge to
be Gained
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ABCs of Preparation
CognitiveBehaviorAttitude
Welcome Email
or Text
Role Model
Video
Test or Case
Study
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
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Chunk it Down
What is the ideal length of a content segment?
– 5 minutes
– 10 minutes
– 15 minutes
– 20 minutes
– 25 minutes
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“Rising Tide was founded by a family affected by autism
in an effort to empower individuals with this diversity by
giving them the tools to be elite car wash professionals.”
Sample Exercise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7t7_zx6n04
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What is the most important
takeaway for you as you think
about your team’s motivation?
Motivation
Sample Exercise
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For many people, work has
little value unless it
contributes to a higher
purpose
Purpose-Driven
Sample Exercise
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How will you adapt your actions as a virtual leader
to help people understand the purpose of their work?
Understanding Purpose
Sample Exercise
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In Your Own Words
Reflect on the design and
delivery of the activity we just
completed.
How would that lead to learning
retention and transfer?
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it Up
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Mix It Up
What does this
brain-based
principle suggest to
you about how to
design learning for
maximum retention?
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• Novelty
• Variety
• Mixing
• Spacing
Mix It Up
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Mix It Up
Increase the creativity and novelty of the
exercises you design for the virtual
classroom.
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Mix It Up
Use a variety of interaction tools:
• Chat
• Polling
• Emoticons
• Annotation/Drawing
• Video and Audio
• Streaming Video
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15 fast balls
15 curve balls
15 change ups
Mix It Up
Which is better:
Blocked or
Interwoven?
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Two hours of
repetition to form
new synaptic
connections.
Mix It Up
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Mix It Up
• Slower progress
• Greater long-term
retention
• More neural connections
Learning two languages:
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Mix It Up
Fast learning (amygdala)
Short term memory
Degrades over time
Spacing
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What have you
learned in your own
words?
Mix It Up
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it UpSleep on it
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Sleep on it
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Sleep on it
The waking brain ENCODES memories.
The sleeping brain CONSOLIDATES
memories.
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Sleep on it
• Allow the brain to consolidate information
• Move it from the hippocampus to the
neocortex.
One hour of slow-wave sleep will:
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Sleep on it
How can you design virtual programs to
capitalize on the brain-based method of
“sleeping on it?”
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Reinforcement Tools
Job Aid Card
Electronic Magazine
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it UpSleep on it
Test
and
Retest
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Information retrieval
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How can you make testing FUN?
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Test and Retest
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Test and Retest
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Blazing Coach
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Time for your Retest!
Test and Retest
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it UpSleep on it
Test
and
Retest
Use it
or Lose it
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Use it or Lose it
Source: National Training Laboratory Institute for Applied Behavioral Science
Lecture
Reading
Audio/Video
Demonstration
Discussion
Practice by Doing
Teaching Others
Immediate Application in a Real Situation
5%
10%
20%
30%
50%
75%
90%
90%
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Use it or Lose it
Create opportunities to apply and report back.
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Use it or Lose it
Social Collaboration Site (Class Blog)
Name
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Brain-based Retention
Prime
the Pump
Chunk
it Down
Mix it Up
Use it
or Lose it
Test
and
Retest
Sleep on it
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Action Planning
What will
you do
now?
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