It's interesting for me, to notice from my position as an e-learning consultant, to extricate the "learning and skill building" theory that is utilized in the ILP Kit.
The ILP Kit - and I suppose most of the self-help kits out there - start from a very valid position for adult learners.
1. Adult learning needs to be task and pragmatically based.
2. Adults "choose" what they wish to learn
3. Self-directed
What really grounds learning and skill building for adults is small group interaction, as well absolutely relevant feedback.
In most self-help modalites, this feedback aspect is simply - missing. There aren't any "sounding boards" to adequately measure whether your meditation is improving, whether the usage of the physical exercise is going the right way, etc.
I've thought that I would be able to make quite a decent living, developing the "after the training" parts of a self-help training curriculum.
And this is definitely true in the case of ILP Kit DVD as well.
Examples -
For the physical exercise training - there are task-based activities, but not percentage based assessment tracking. Including this would be pretty simple - some type of broad measuring stick response, that would also go along with 2nd order assessment theories.
For the one minute modules especially - which are already on shaky ground from what is known about skill building on a physiological and the attention level - these type of included feedback forms would be a great help.
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Re: Learning and Skill Theory of ILP Kit
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Shaving an egg
on Sun 02 Apr 2006 03:16 PM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link
I think myilp.com should be the place where they easily could fix this.
And thank you for your blog. My favourite blog, actually. :) Re: Re: Learning and Skill Theory of ILP Kit
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ebuddha
on Tue 04 Apr 2006 11:57 AM PDT | Profile | Permanent Link
Hi there,
Thanks for the comment. I would agree they should fix this at myilp. On the larger point, I think this is endemic of the self-actualization movement in general. The only "results-based" feedback is in the tacit knowledge gained by the practitioners of the said "practice", and then the occasional rigorous feedback mechanism. So much more can be done, I would think. Trackbacks
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