Teach Skills Not Facts
For Leading, Innovating, Managing, Certifying
The New Foundation for Education in Corporations and Schools -
Short Sims by Clark Aldrich.
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"The best people in training and education are bored and frustrated with the processes and results." Enter Short Sims.
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Leading, Innovating, Managing, Certifying
Teach skills not facts. Short Sims have emerged as the better alternative to lectures and traditional online courses for developing skills in learners - from conceptual to concrete, from employees to students, from life skills to technical - while maintaining the cost, development cycle, and familiarity of traditional educational content.
They combine the most effective educational elements of serious games, micro-simulations and branching stories.
The Baby Boomer era gave us online lectures and workbooks.
Now, Short Sims fill the gaps by speaking the language of experiential learning.
Experiential learning is how education and training become more relevant as the world shifts to skills and portfolios, not just facts and transcripts.
And Short Sims are how we get comfortable with a new experiential pedagogy, and tap the creativity and ambition of our instructional designers. They are how we engage vast swaths of people who have not found traditional education and training to be speaking their language.
Short Sims are short simulations that teach leadership, certification, innovation, and management skills. They are quick to play (about 7 minutes), easy to deploy, and are more effective than traditional online content.
Short Sims—platform-independent, non-proprietary, and easily shared—change the affordances of education yet feel familiar, because they mirrors how we learn in the real world.
Revolutionary, they also have the advantages of traditional online content, including ease of creating, editing, auditing, validating, deploying at scale with a low technology and skill threshold, and updating.
The creator of the pedagogy, Clark Aldrich, is the world's most experienced designer of educational simulations and an award-winning industry researcher.
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"Aldrich has done it again. He has created a solution that makes the room go quiet."
- Karl Kapp, Instructional Technology Professor, Bloomsburg University
"You know what I wish? If we had it to do over, I wish that the 'e-Learning' business had started with this. That this was the first thing trainers and training departments and creators of authoring tools had seen."
- Jane Bozarth, Director of Research, The Learning Guild
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What if we got schools wrong? Aldrich's fifth book - Unschooling Rules - is listed as one of the 20 most influential in Mr. Charles Koch's book Believe in People for its rethinking of education.
