Accelerated Learning

Here we review Eric Jensen’s 12 principles, which are based on those originally developed by Geoffrey and Renate Caine and provide a useful summary of the key concepts of the brain-based learning approach.

An insight into how the brain receives, processes and stores information, based on the work of international educational consultant David Sousa.

In this short article, we capture Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligence theory which proposes that we have not only one intelligence but several, and that using varied approaches to training will help to ensure successful learning for everyone.

Georgi Lozanov’s 'Suggestopedia' is a holistic, mind/body integrated approach to learning, based on the finding that when learners are in a state of relaxed alertness, they are more open to suggestion and can learn more effectively.

Accelerated learning is a holistic, learner-focused approach to training, based on the science of how the brain learns best. Here we review the guiding principles, as outlined by accelerated learning guru Dave Meier.

Since the latter half of the last century, discoveries in neuroscience have given us an invaluable insight into how the brain functions. Here we outline the key theories as they apply to the learning process.

Scientific research is beginning to clarify the links between learning, movement, senses and emotions. In her book Smart Moves, Carla Hannaford outlines the mind and body connection and its importance to the learning process. We review it here.

Here we review two core principles underpinning Dave Meier’s Rapid Instructional Design Model, which illustrates how course design time can be vastly reduced and the quality of learning significantly improved by focusing on experiential activities in a collaborative learning environment.