G. Matthew Rice wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 7:05 AM, Alan McKinnon<alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> It is true that the objectives have names starting with numbers and that >> you can sort them by those numbers. But I don't believe you should take >> that to mean they follow a strict sequence for teaching purposes. To >> illustrate better, you can remove the numbers and sort the objective >> names alphabetically - you don't get a sensible sequence doing it that >> way either. > More importantly (to me), some of the affiliates have pretty much > stated that I'll be lynched if I do a wholesale renumbering of the > objectives. ;)
We surely don't want that! :-) >> It has always been the case that training providers and authors of >> training materials must present their content in whatever order they >> feel makes sense to them and their students. > True. I know some trainers that insist on starting with doing > installs. While others won't do that until the end of the course. Several people I trained were not interested in it, as they already could successfully install a distro (usually Ubuntu) on a PC/laptop or in a virtual environment by themselves. >> Another thing that must be mentioned but is often glossed over - humans >> do NOT learn sequentially. A strict order is probably the worst way to >> present something for us. We do better when we continually revisit >> topics, adding more knowledge each time it is revisited. This is hard to >> do in a short IT course though. Meaning that folks should do whatever >> they find works for them. > It sounds like you're referring to something like: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaced_repetition > > along with "organic learning". I'd have to agree there. That's why > I'm a bigger fan of internships and mentoring than "bums in seats" > training. "Bums in seats" training, that's a new one on me. But I think I'm going to adopt the terminology, as it does fit with some occasional topics that I discussed more than once before. Alessandro _______________________________________________ lpi-examdev mailing list lpi-examdev@lpi.org http://list.lpi.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
