Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. In childcare, the responsibility of preparing staff to meet high standards is enormous. From ...

If you don’t read past this first paragraph, remember just two things: You almost never move up a learning curve, only down. And the steeper the curve, the easier the learning. Learning curves were ...

In surgical training, learning curves are used to plot the number of attempts required to master a difficult procedure, or the number of procedures required to achieve proficiency. It is incorrect to ...

Learning curves graphically portray the costs and benefits of experience when performing routine or repetitive tasks. Also known as experience curves, cost curves, efficiency curves, and productivity ...

There are a lot of different reasons people plateau in their quest for mastery or excellence. Conditions might not be right; support structures might not be in place; the individual might not be ...

In the extensive literature on learning curves, scholars have ignored outcome measures of organizational performance evaluated by customers. We explore whetehr customer dissatisfaction follows a ...

Knowing and understanding are different. On the road to deeper learning, you sometimes find that you’ve gained knowledge while losing understanding. The nature of unlearning reshapes the “learning ...