Stephen Kosslyn has a long and distinguiished history of research on the subject, so he is worth listening to even in the form of a short HBS article. He writes, "When I've asked large numbers of people this question, they typically report that they intentionally tried to learn at most a tenth of what they recall at the end of the day. So, where did the rest of what we recall come from? Deep processing." This is the natural bypoduct of having paid attention to something and having thought about it. So successful learning results from activities that promote this. One part depends on getting the level of difficulty of right, which is where analytics may play a role. But also, " active learning (such as group problem solving, role playing, and debate) ... has been shown repeatedly to be a very effective way to learn." The third combines the first two: social ctivities that enable multi-layered levels of participation.
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