Follow a process for faster LEARNing
There are five core steps that help you learn faster and remember more. These help you include
much of what we know about strong learning performance into your learning activities. All the steps together deliver a powerful and repeatable method for
achieving many learning goals.
Use these five steps while learning any new topic or skill. These
steps are Locate, Explore, Arrange, Reinforce, and eNquire. The following diagram outlines these
steps:
As you can see above, the first letters (or sounds) of these steps create the mnemonic LEARN.
Here’s a summary of each of these five steps (click the links to go to more detailed descriptions):
- Locate. Find content for your course. This may involve using standard books and
manuals, however it could also involve getting material from lectures, one-on-one tutoring
sessions, the Internet and other references.
- Explore. Work through and understand your content. There are some general
principles to follow, such as learning content using the deeper, wider, higher principle. You
may also want to try some exploration techniques specific to your personal learning styles.
- Arrange. Prepare your content for memorization, where needed. In this step you
select suitable techniques to reinforce the content you’ve explored, and then prepare content
to use with those techniques
- Reinforce. In this step, you use the various techniques to reinforce knowledge,
skills and behaviors. This book has many different techniques you can apply to various forms
of content.
- eNquire. eNquire on your overall progress. Review both the content you’ve learned,
as well as the effectiveness of the techniques and processes you’ve used along the way.
This section of the site looks at each of these steps in more detail. Two quick points before we begin
though. Firstly, you may find that you already use a similar approach when you are learning.
That’s fine. The Memletic Process makes each step clear. This helps you understand how the other
parts of Memletics fit into your overall learning strategy. It also allows you to compare your
current practices and discover if you’re missing any key steps or activities.
Secondly, don’t consider these steps as rigid or prescriptive. You may find that you move
back and forward between the steps. In addition, you may not need to do all the steps for every
learning objective.
For example, when you explore some material you may find you need more information on a
particular topic, and so you go back to the Locate step to find it. Alternatively, when you
start to reinforce (and practice) what you’ve learned, you may find you need to explore it
further to understand it fully. Lastly, a simple learning objective may allow you to skip the
explore step.
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