Energize Your Training

Introduction

In the past two decades, researchers have made a number of discoveries about how various environmental and related factors in the classroom affect a learner's ability to gain, retain, recall, and use what he or she experiences there—factors such as light, sound, color, odor, movement, novelty, and nutrition. They have identified where in the human brain visual and auditory messages are processed, which parts of the brain are involved when a new stimulus is encountered, and what path is taken as memories are formed. Trainers and educators now can use the lessons from this research to plan their approaches to content delivery. Designing ...