B-Learning along with E-Learning

by Andy Bozeman

It’s no secret. The people who can e-learn are the same ones who can…......just plain learn. 

If we look at four distinct times of existence, a startling fact emerges concerning who is able to learn:

• Past              Motivated students who knew how to learn
• Now              Motivated students who know how to learn
• Future           Motivated students who know how to learn
• Forever          Motivated students who know how to learn 

I’m all for devising remarkable ways to get information to the motivated students who already know how to learn. But I also want to concentrate on teaching more young people the basics of learning. No one can learn at the speed of light if they can’t grasp a printed word sitting still on a page.

Please join me in this process. Spend 95% of your time developing and disseminating light-speed learning processes. Spend 3% reinventing processes for basic learning (b-learning), such as reading from a printed page, and writing on a piece of paper, and doing arithmetic with a pencil or piece of chalk. Then spend 1% thinking about how to combine the two.

Don’t forget, we’re analog, not digital. We feel knowledge more than we absorb it. The sensation of holding a book, even an e-book device, creates a tactile connection, which becomes mental. Learning occurs through the senses – hand to eye to brain to hand. In my opinion, nothing will ever replace a piece of paper you can hold in your hand.

Did you notice that 1% is still missing? Here it is. Spend 1% of your time considering how to create motivated students. In all methods of education, bring back the old inspirational stories of morality and accountability, the stories that transcend religious biases, refute superstition, and  favor the uniquely human drive to be self-reliant, self-supporting, and self-fulfilled.

The greatest motivation comes when an individual realizes the connection between learning and living well. 

So, with combinations of b-learning and e-learning, let’s teach Living Well at Light Speed.

Thank you,
Andy Bozeman

AHI 9200, CFPM

email Andy@AndyBozeman.com

internet AndyBozeman.com

Who’s Talking About E-Learning?

I’ve never found it effective to teach with words like pedagogical, or pepper my lectures with phrases like Conversational Cognitive Model, and Neutral Contextual Behavioral Mode Perspective, and Environmental And Social Aspects Foci. But, every time I research anything about e-learning and e-teaching, most of the information I find is made up almost entirely of such words and phrases.

Of course, these vocabulations (It’s almost a real word) do mean something. But the people who do most of the talking about e-learning, the ones using such words, the only people who really understand them, are the ones who routinely say them…….. to each other. These types of words are for citizens of Academia, not the rest of us. And there's the rub. Or, maybe it's Contactual Ameliorating Manipulation.


Every industry and institution suffers the same fate. In every type of job, for individuals to standout from the crowd, for the cream to rise to the top, those who wish to be the cream must find better ways to show-off, or flaunt their abilities in comparison to their peers. However, at this point, the terms flaunt, cream, and poor judgment become equal.

For example, while channel surfing, I stumbled across one of those find-the-best-fashion-designer TV shows. One finalist was singled out for his submission, which was the most outlandish example of fabric-passing-for-clothes I’ve ever seen. The judges agreed. One of them said the most to-the-point, most widely applicable comment I've ever heard for our topic. She said to the contestant, “It’s obvious that you are so lost within the culture of fashion design, and you’re trying so hard to impress and out-do the other contestants, that you have completely forgotten your customers.”

Individuals, single entities, can school together to form a new entity, the group, or Cerebrationally Concurring Centristic Amalgamation. That group, in this case, is comprised of very well educated professionals of learning, who have become so focused on speaking to each other, that the object of their profession, the student, has been forgotten.

Therefore, when we talk about e-learning, I propose that we rededicate our efforts for the good of the student. Instead of pedagogical let’s say “about teachers and teaching.” Instead of Conversational Cognitive Model, let’s say, “find a way to say something so others can understand it.” And, when it comes to saying phrases like Neutral Contextual Behavioral Mode Perspective, and Environmental And Social Aspects Foci, ……well, ……let’s just don’t.

Afterall, which phrase works best : Vocabulistically Non-Academian Cognizance Inducing Socio-Intercoursional sans-Centric Mode, 
or Teach, so learning can happen?

Thank you,
Andy Bozeman

AHI 9200, CFPM

email Andy@AndyBozeman.com

internet AndyBozeman.com