When is Learning Most Effective?
Caution: This is an opinion-based article. Like a fish who cannot see the entire water body it is living in, I feel I sometimes become ignorant of the larger aspect of my role in the training cycle. We sometimes are so lost in developing small pieces of deliverables that the entire purpose of the training remains unconsidered. Hence, I thought of distancing myself from what I have learned as an Instructional Designer, focusing my mind on recollecting how I learned the first complex skill in my life. I believe it's the first complex skill for everyone . Can you guess what it is? It’s our mother tongue. The language spoken in our native places. I bet nobody remembers how they learned it. Though I started learning English in the fourth standard, it was only when I was in the university, I could start speaking. So, how come I learned one language in the first three years of my life and took two decades to learn one more language. I never learned the grammar to speak my mother tong