Powerful Brain Based Learning Strategies: With Special Guest Margie Meacham

This week on IDIODC, Brent and Chris bring on Margie "The Brain Lady" Meacham! She shares brain-based learning design principles backed up by research. If you're interested in truly improving the ways you design, develop and deliver training, then you need to pay attention to newest research in neuroscience. Margie will talk with us about what works and what doesn't. We'll also talk about the myths surrounding the work we do and how current research better informs our design decisions. During this episode Margie gives away a copy of her book, Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience During this episode we will also be giving away an #IDIODC mug for the month of April! Join the IDIODC #MugShot gang! Margie Meacham, aka “The Brain Lady” is one of the foremost experts in educational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. She helps organizations filter through the noise to find to enhance learning and performance through science. Margie is available for keynotes and custom workshops. She is a founding member of the global consultancy, “The Brain Ladies.” Watch for her new workshop “Build Your First Chatbot” with “eLearning Joe” Joe Ganci. Margie teaches people how to design and deliver training that is compelling, memorable and immediately useful by applying the latest discoveries from the converging fields of learning science. The author of “Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience” believes that if you understand how the brain works you can become a better teacher, trainer, leader, spouse or parent and have more fun doing it. Margie is the Chief Freedom Officer of Learningtogo and hosts a Top Ten podcast on the science of learning. She is a recipient of the 100 Most Innovative in Learning award and a frequent keynote speaker at industry conferences. Check out Margie’s talk: “We are the Disruption”. She teaches the ATD online course, Essentials of Brain-Based Learning. You can learn more about Margie on her website at www.learningtogo.info Learn more about Brain Matters: How to help anyone learn anything using neuroscience: https://learningtogo.info/brain-matters-book/ Purchase Margie's book here: https://www.amazon.ca/Brain-Matters-anyone-anything-neuroscience/dp/1508722137 Learningtogo: https://learningtogo.info/ Top 10 Podcasts: https://learningtogo.info/2017/07/12/the-learningtogo-podcast-is-8-for-learning-and-development-professionals-in-2017/ 100 Most Innovative in Learning award: https://learningtogo.info/2017/10/05/margie-meacham-is-one-of-the-100-most-talented-global-training-development-leaders-for-2018/ Margie’s talk: “We are the Disruption”: https://disrupthr.co/vimeo-video/survive-thrive-5-disruptions-changing-hr-by-changing-what-it-means-to-be-human-margie-meacham-disrupthr-talks/ ATD online course, Essentials of Brain-Based Learning: https://learningtogo.info/2017/11/27/upcoming-event-essentials-of-brain-based-learning/ Learn more about Margie on her LinkedIn profile. https://www.linkedin.com/in/margiemeacham/ Become virtual friends with the IDIODC gang on twitter (and remember you can always stay in the loop with the #IDIODC hashtag): Margie: @MargieMeacham https://twitter.com/margiemeacham Brent: @BSchlenker https://twitter.com/bschlenker Chris: @Chris_V_W https://twitter.com/Chris_V_W Brent Schlenker is dominKnow's Community Manager. Chris Van Wingerden is dominKnow's Sr. VP Learning Solutions. Want to join us live? Follow us on Crowdcast: https://www.crowdcast.io/dominknow Interested in learning more about dominKnow? Sign up for our next live platform demo to learn why we do powerful eLearning-authoring best. (And get a free 14-day trial after you watch the demo!) https://www.dominknow.com/demonstration.html Brought to you by the dominKnow | ONE Platform - develop, manage, and distribute impactful L&D content – efficiently, at scale.