Chapter 12: Keeping up with digital technology advancements 1. What is accelerated learning?
The term accelerated learning refers to learning that occurs at a much more rapid rate than what would be considered normal.
2. What is learning efficiency? Learning efficiency refers to a learner’s rate of learning and retention. It can also be thought of as a combination of degree of difficulty of what is being learned, the accuracy of learning, and the quantity of learning that takes place per unit of time. Or, put another way, it is the amount and quality of learning that occurs per unit of time, assuming what is being learned is the same.
3. What is the difference between accelerated learning and learning efficiency? Learning efficiency is concerned with learner’s rate of learning and retention, and accelerated learning is concerned with how to speed up this rate of learning and retention. But the two terms are often used interchangeably.
4. What three personal characteristics drive learning efficiency?
The three personal characteristics are: -Perceived need to learn a topic -An understanding / appreciation of the challenges involved in learning that topic -Tolerance for ambiguity (tendency to perceive ambiguous situations as tolerable or even desirable).
