Blogs

The team at Bloomfire (official site: http://bit.ly/9EaLnx) is offering the E-Learning Council community exclusive free early-bird access to their upcoming webinar, Collaborative Learning 101. Our last webinar, How to Build High-Impact Learning Communities, was so popular that we had to switch webinar platforms to accommodate everyone.

Dan Meyer teaches high school math outside of Santa Cruz, CA, and explores the intersection of math instruction, multimedia, and inquiry-based learning. He received his Masters of Arts from the University of California at Davis in 2005 and Cable in the Classroom's Leader in Learning award in 2008. He currently works for Google as a curriculum fellow and lives with his wife in Santa Cruz, CA.

In 1885, Herman Ebbinghaus did an experiment where subjects memorized a list of meaningless three letter words and tracked how quickly his subjects forgot the words.   As you can see from the graph below, known as the Ebbinghaus curve, our learners will rapidly forget information.  In the case of meaningless information, only 20 minutes after they only remember 58% of the information.

Graph from Purdue University