Practical Business Continuity Exercises

05 Making exercises educational by design

In this chapter, you will learn about:

1. Three levels of learning: visual, verbal and kinaesthetic

2. Experiential learning (Kolb)

3. Honey and Mumford’s learning styles

4. Situated learning theory (Lave and Wenger)

5. Behaviourist learning theory

6. Single and double-loop learning

7. Cognitive learning theory

8. Problem-based learning

Until writing this book I never really paid much attention to different academic theories when designing my exercises. I often found that different tools and techniques worked, but I was unsure of the theory behind why they worked. By writing this, I have learnt that people learn in different ways, which is reflected in how they engage in an exercise. While we may already include elements outlined ...