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    Dale's Cone of Experience is a model that shows people retain more information through hands-on experience than through passive learning like reading. At the bottom of the cone, where learners do an actual task, retention is 90%. The cone suggests instructors use more experiential learning techniques like simulations, role plays and hands-on workshops that engage multiple senses. This will strengthen knowledge retention compared to methods at the top of the cone like lectures and readings. The cone is a tool to help instructors choose activities that build on real-life experiences and enhance learning.

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    Dale's Cone of Experience is a model that shows people retain more information through hands-on experience than through passive learning like reading. At the bottom of the cone, where learners do an actual task, retention is 90%. The cone suggests instructors use more experiential learning techniques like simulations, role plays and hands-on workshops that engage multiple senses. This will strengthen knowledge retention compared to methods at the top of the cone like lectures and readings. The cone is a tool to help instructors choose activities that build on real-life experiences and enhance learning.

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    PerspectiveS for Pharmacy Educators

    Excellence

    Dales Cone of Experience

    Teaching

    Heidi Milia Anderson, Ph.D.,


    Assistant Dean for Education Innovation, University of Kentucky

    Successful

    Description. Dales Cone of Experience is a model that incorporates several theories related to instructional design
    and learning processes. During the 1960s, Edgar Dale theorized that learners retain more information by what they
    do as opposed to what is heard, read or observed. His research led to the development of the Cone of
    Experience. Today, this learning by doing has become known as experiential learning or action learning.
    The cone is diagramed and explained in the next sections.
    Cone of Experience
    People generally remember
    10% of what they Read

    20% of what they Hear

    30% of what they


    See

    Learners are able to (Learning Outcomes):

    Read
    Text

    Define
    Describe
    List
    Explain

    Listen to
    Lecture (Hear)

    Watch still pictures


    Watch moving pictures

    50% of what they


    See and Hear

    Demonstrate
    Apply
    Practice

    View exhibit
    Watch demonstration

    70% of what they Say


    and Write

    Participate in a hands-on workshop


    i
    Role-play a situation

    Model or Simulate a Real Experience

    90% of what they Do as


    they perform a task

    Direct Purposeful Experience -- Go through the real experience

    Source: Adapted from E. Dale, Audiovisual Methods in Teaching, 1969, NY: Dryden Press.

    Concrete
    Analyze
    Design
    Create
    Evaluate

    How Can Instructors Use the Cone of Experience?


    According to Dales research, the least effective method at the top, involves learning from information
    presented through verbal symbols, i.e., listening to spoken words. The most effective methods at the bottom,
    involves direct, purposeful learning experiences, such as hands-on or field experience. Direct purposeful
    experiences represents reality or the closet things to real, everyday life.
    The cone charts the average retention rate for various methods of teaching. The further you progress down
    the cone, the greater the learning and the more information is likely to be retained. It also suggests that when
    choosing an instructional method it is important to remember that involving students in the process strengthens
    knowledge retention.
    It reveals that action-learning techniques result in up to 90% retention. People learn best when they use
    perceptual learning styles. Perceptual learning styles are sensory based. The more sensory channels possible in
    interacting with a resource, the better chance that many students can learn from it. According to Dale, instructors
    should design instructional activities that build upon more real-life experiences.
    Dales cone of experience is a tool to help instructors make decisions about resources and
    activities. The instructor can ask the following:

    Where will the students experience with this instructional resource fit on the cone? How far is it
    removed from real-life?

    What kind of learning experience do you want to provide in the classroom?

    How does this instructional resource augment the information supplied by the textbook?

    What and how many senses can students use to learn this instructional material?

    Does the instructional material enhance learning?

    References:
    Diamond, Robert M. Designing and Improving Courses and Curricula in Higher Education. San Francisco,
    Jossey-Bass, 1989.
    Dale, Edgar. Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching, 3rd ed., Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York, 1969, p.
    108
    Bruner, Jerome S. Toward a Theory of Instruction, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1966, p. 49.

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