High Performance Learning
This old "bricks and mortar" approach focussed on the 'test' and told us little about what other learning had actually occurred for each individual. Reading speed, test anxiety, question formats and a number of other variables all affected test scores which was the only measurement of what was learned.
Now the science of learning and new technologies are telling us that there are advantages to teaching and training learners to develop their FLUENCY in recognition, information retrieval, and critical thinking skills. The Deckchair learning system does all this and more.
Do you know where your learners are?
Not knowing where your learners' Fluency levels are can have a significant impact on the long-term success of your teaching and training efforts. When FLUENCY lags behind accuracy to a great degree, slow responses can create a lack of confidence when interacting with people in any environment or even have negative consequences when time-critical skills are required to resolve certain situations.
DeckChair identifies these lags automatically for individuals, groups, and entire classes.
The object of performance learning is to get learners fluency scores "up to speed" with their accuracy scores.
Why?
Extensive research over the past 4 decades, particularly by Carl Binder, points to 3 broad categories where training fluency has a proven impact:
- - Fluency is linked to improved retention or maintenance of skills and knowledge.
- - Fluency improves attention span or resistance to distraction.
- - Fluency in prerequisite skills or knowledge supports application or transfer of new learning to more advanced or complex performance.
These improved teaching and training outcomes have a positive effect on the educational experience by reducing resource costs while improving learning performance now, and down the road.
Adaptive-Engine
Our Adaptive Learning Method begins with organizing all teaching and training materials into a convenient learning hierarchy. This is achieved by defining content areas that would coincide with the structure of your existing learning materials such as:
- Text books
- Rule books
- Manuals
- Or any other body of content
Example Taxonomy Setup
Adaptive Learning Pathways are then created by defining and implementing;
- mastery criteria that triggers advancement (speed and accuracy benchmarks)
- maintenance criteria (automatic scheduled practice of known facts)
- quick release criteria (advances students when performance predicts success)
The DeckChair Team assists with all parts of your content uploading and organization.
Once your learning materials have been set up in the system DeckChair automatically advances any student through the content at their own pace by:
- tracking performance with detailed user profiles by using proprietary FLUENCY analytics
- guiding students through their assignments in a time-efficient fashion
- providing automatic guided feedback and tutor assistance as required
The only effort necessary to continue running your adaptive courses is to invite new learners as required.
The DeckChairTutor system does the rest!
For a complete discussion of our patented, innovative learning method you can access our WhitePaper by clicking HERE. (USPTO #s: 8506305 B2, 8851900 B2)