Don’t ask me how I got subscribed to Will’s Weblogg-ed. But reading today’s post on ‘Learning 101‘ leaves me with an ‘IKEA‘-feel to it. Especially:

• Use visuals!
• Use the filmaker (and novelist) principle of SHOW-don’t-TELL.
• Use “chunking” to reduce cognitive overhead.
• Don’t rob the learner of the opportunity to think!
• Context matters.
• …

To name a few. This makes you wonder why so many people are still figuring out how they will ever finish their newly bought ‘Billy‘… Hold on:

• Emotion matters!
• Since stress/anxiety can reduce focus and memory, do everything possible to make the learner feel relaxed and confident.

Maybe it’s time to replace the paper instructions with something else… *Surpressing the how-to-bolt-together-your-IKEA-furniture.blogspot.com-thought* *REAL HARD*