If you are a Tim Ferriss fan and an eLearning developer, you need to hear this LMScast episode which outlines his 5 principles for accelerated learning and how they apply to building online courses.
Tim Ferriss is a best selling author whose books include The 4 Hour Work Week, The 4 Hour Body, and The 4 Hour Chef. His new TV show is called The Tim Ferriss Experiment and includes an episode about how he achieves accelerated learning. Our LifterLMS WordPress plugin is designed on these principles, and anyone who is developing online courses will benefit from knowing them.
Principle 1: Deconstruction, means breaking overwhelming skills down in order to process them easily, as you should do when designing your online course.
Principle 2: Selection, is based on the Pareto Principle and means to focus on key elements of a subject. This will keep your online course design from becoming too information-heavy.
Principle 3: Sequencing, means to try new and different approaches to learning that make failure less painful, so students are more likely to make an attempt.
Principle 4: Stakes, is about setting a goal with consequences, such as tests that determine whether a student progresses or not.
Principle 5: Simplify, means offering students one unit of a subject to master before going on to the next one.
These 5 principles of accelerated learning allow Tim Ferriss to do the amazing things he does, and they will work for you in developing your eLearning course, especially if you use a course development platform like LifterLMS.
