Research and Best Practices

Hi David,

I don't have any research to back this up but I would think it'd be easier for learners to do the courses one after the other. That way the information in course 1 is still fresh in their mind when they do course 2 and course 3. But I'm interested to see what others have to say here!

Hi David, is there a way you could share those courses or case study. I am working on creating a course on Finance/Business Acumen using Growth, Liquidity and Profitability as a base.

touching on Cash flow, PnL, OPEX etc

The course content belongs to the client so I can not share that. The general direction of the content starts with the basics of finance and accounting, the associated financial sheets, explanation of the terms with examples, 2-3 case studies, solutions, mentoring on the topics. Then the content goes deeper and is then applied to a series of situations in which the learner needs to determine the impact on the organization as things change, e.g., decrease in revenue projections causes X to happen in obligations, purchases, inventory, etc. The final content is toward the external impact and perceptions of the company during the ups/downs of financial conditions. So we cover the same topics as your course but might differ in the case studies and application knowledge transfer. Hope this helps.

thanks, this helps.

Hi, David,

I saw a short presentation about this topic recently. Research shows that interleaving works well to increase long-term learning. Here's their visual description of interleaving:

And here's an example (with the correct answer circled): 

The presentation didn't directly address scaffolding, but I believe there's research to support presenting content via increasing levels of difficulty.