The Accelerated Learning Handbook: A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs [Hardcover]

Dave Meier (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071355472 | ISBN-13: 978-0071355476 | Publication Date: June 29, 2000 | Edition: 1

Discover how today's corporations are benefiting from accelerated learning to speed training time, improve results, and reduce costs.

Accelerated learning is the use of music, color, emotion, play, and creativity to involve the whole student and enliven the learning experience. The Accelerated Learning Handbook is the first definitive book to explain state-of-the-art accelerated learning techniques to trainers and teachers, and features 40 techniques designed to save money while producing far better results.

Leading expert Dave Meier provides an overview of the background and underlying principles of accelerated learning, and reviews the latest supporting research results. Training professionals will look to The Accelerated Learning Handbook to:

• Improve the long-term value of training
• Cut course development time by half
• Discover tips for music- and computer-based learning

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From the Back Cover

Create and Implement High-Impact, Low-Cost Training Programs­­In Half the Time or Better!

Accelerated learning­­the use of the full mind and the whole personality to speed and enhance learning­­has impressed trainers and learners worldwide with its effectiveness. The Accelerated Learning Handbook is the definitive guide to this state-of-the-art learning approach.

Written by accelerated learning guru Dave Meier, the book explains an innovative, rapid instructional design methodology and presents hundreds of practical techniques and ideas to speed training time and reduce costs, while significantly improving learning and long-term results. In The Accelerated Learning Handbook, discover how leading corporations are using A.L. methods to:

• Speed and enhance learning
• Greatly reduce course design time
• Improve retention and job performance
• Involve learners at every stage of the process
• Enhance both classroom and Web-based learning
• Create healthier learning environments
• Build effective learning communities
• Energize and re-humanize the learning process

About the Author

Dave Meier founded the Center for Accelerated Learning in 1980. Since then, he has trained more corporate training professionals to use accelerated learning techniques than any other person worldwide. The Center for Accelerated Learning mails over 200,000 brochures and newsletters annually in support of Dave's work and seminars. His clients include Continental Airlines, Ameritech, Con Edison, Canon USA, Shell Oil, Starbucks, Traveler's Insurance, AT&T, Intel, and American Express. He has published articles in Training & Development magazine, is the editor of Accelerated Learning Application News, and was chosen "Trainer of the Year" by the ASTD's Brain Trainer's Group.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 274 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill; 1 edition (June 29, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071355472
• ISBN-13: 978-0071355476
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #79,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #73 in Books > Business & Investing > Management & Leadership > Training

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48 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best on the subject, July 16, 2000

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This review is from: The Accelerated Learning Handbook: A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs (Hardcover)

... if not the best. Rather then rehash a lot of theories about accelerated (or brain-based) learning, the author, Dave Meier succinctly defines the concepts and provides a wealth of real-world examples. The book is targeted at trainers and facilitators who want to create truly effective, collaborative learning experiences. It's refreshing, well-written, and offers a realistic appraisal as to why accelerated learning works (vs. traditional forms of "education"). If you're interested in the subject, this book is a must read.

48 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational! This book lives up to its title!, September 10, 2001

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This review is from: The Accelerated Learning Handbook: A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs (Hardcover)

I am a subject matter expert who was occassionally requested to make training presentations. I began to realize that training was my calling. I was then hired to plan training programs. By chance, I ran across this book. After reading the book, I was so inspired I wanted to read it again to ensure that I didn't miss anything important. Here is what happened next. I needed to plan training for professionals in a country I had never visited -- truly a risky venture! Relying on the principles in this book, I designed a program that really involved the participants (the students). For example, in the afternoon of the first day of the workshop, students were meeting with each other in breakout sessions, identifying "promising practices" and "best practices" and making presentations to the whole group. The workshop lasted three days. My supervisors really liked the design of the program. The instructors/facilitators loved participating in the program. And, most importantly, the students/participants loved it so much that I am told to expect twice as many students/participants at the next session. As one instructor/facilitator put it, if the goal of the program was to both create joy and share knowledge, the goal was achieved. Without the information in this book (about how the brain works, about the importance of joy to successful training, about the importance of giving the students/participants the opportunity to create knowledge, etc., etc.), my program would not have been the success that it was. To the author -- Dave Meier (whom I have never met) -- I have these words: "Your book inspired me. It inspired me to design a great training program ... a training program even better than I could have imagined. Because of the importance of the training program, I will look back at the program as one of the great achievements in my life. And I owe it to you. Thank you."

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Accelerated Learning, April 17, 2001

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Nathan B LeDuc (Stevens Point, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Accelerated Learning Handbook: A Creative Guide to Designing and Delivering Faster, More Effective Training Programs (Hardcover)

The Accelerated Learning Handbook provides wonderful insight to the different senses that must be stimulated in order to create an optimum learning environment. A.L. Theory advocates a very interactive approach that requires less prep time by the trainer while various topics are explored and cooperatively self-taught by participants. Learning is a full body experience. This book seeks to change the ideas in teaching that were developed in the 1800's and never changed. Although the book tends to get repetitive in convincing the reader that American learning has been wrong for 150 years, the book has many very good thought provoking and eye-opening points. Some of the latest brain research (very simplified for those who aren't neurosurgeons) helps to psychologically justify the innovative new ways of teaching and explains how and why certain methods work particularly well while others do not. Large emphasis is placed on how to get away from standard methods of teaching that bombard the student with verbal or written information, expecting them simply to regurgitate that information. Filled with wisdom in the first part of the book and full of creative applications in the latter part, this book is an excellent well-formatted resource that is very easy to read.