Kolb Meets 4A: A Prezi-duction of 2 Learning Cycles

Learning Cycles are sequences of learning steps that you can use to design a holistic and effective learning process. I learned about Jane Vella's 4A Learning Cycle through Dialogue Education, and I have used it as the starting place when designing any learning task because it just seems to work. I didn't encounter Kolb's Experiential Learning Cycle until I stepped out into the wider world of training, but I found that almost no one here has ever heard of the 4A Cycle. Go figure! So perhaps an introduction is in order...Here is a Prezi that introduces both learning cycles.

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Is your workshop (or a workshop you love) suffering from SRD?

Has this ever happened to you? You and your best friend, Eleanor Ray created a great learning design for your new workshop. The opening Warm-Up went brilliantly, the participants were deeply engaged in the first few learning tasks and they were just getting down to some serious application work when WHAM-O! Confusion, pained expressions, discouraged participants and lots of time spent clarifying what the participants should be doing....a real train wreck that throws the rest of the workshop off. Don't worry, you're not alone. Every year, thousands of learning facilitators and their unsuspecting participants suffer from Sequence & Reinforcement Dysfunction (SRD). I should know; I've been one of them.

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