At Habitat X we specialize in leveraging educational technology to make absorbing information more effective for the learner and easier for the educator. This applies equally to teachers, salespeople, and customer service representatives. But there’s always a critical caveat here: your educational technology should be transparent to the learner and secondary to the educational mission.

A Day in the Life of Learning

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Our friend J West has made a study of making education work. What he has learned, and it’s not that complex, is that the best educators learn to view the educational experience through the eyes of the learner. In this one-pager, first published in Home Energy Magazine, he offers the high points of one very good day in the classroom or field.

What Your Trainer Should Have Taught You

Building Scientist Courtney Moriarta

So you took a class and got yourself certified. Now what? Today’s tools provide results quicker than ever. But how much do you know about what’s going on under the hood? What would you do if the black box failed? In this workshop, we learned how to get real with the practical details of building science, diagnostics, and applications. This session was co-presented by Chris Dorsi and Courtney Moriarta.

Download the PDF resource: What Your Trainer: Summary

Choosing Houses for Field Training

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Many organizations deliver training in the field. There are distinct advantages to moving the classroom into the real world where the conditions are similar those faced by the contracting community. But field training can also become a mine-field, where the best laid plans go wrong and a lot of time can be wasted. We’ve learned that one of the best ways to optimize field training is to choose the right venue, and to that end we’ve created a two-pager that outlines what we have found are the attributes of the best homes for field training.