No Commoncog posts for the past 2 weeks because I'm working on Commoncog's Cognitive Flexibility Theory-driven business case library.
I'm quite excited about this. If CFT really works as advertised, this will be a pretty cool way you can accelerate your business expertise.
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One of the tricky things about CFT is that it demands cases be complex, and embedded with many different concepts.
The problem is that people expect clean cases, written to make a specific point.
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Yes, I know how that sounds like.
No, this isn't hype.
There's some solid cognitive science here, and it has FASCINATING things to say about the nature of learning in messy, real world domains.
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Another challenge: if cases are embedded with multiple concepts, you can cross link across different concepts and businesses. But then cases might not be easy to read, and the learning experience might be too fractal.
We don't yet know how to solve for this.
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In the original CFT research, the researchers recommend a learning experience where you introduce a concept, and then quickly introduce many different cases to help them internalise that concepts look very different in practice!
There's some of that here, but ...
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It's unclear to me how readers will navigate the library.
Also, the researchers suggest that you present the student with a case to solve, and give them access to the case library for reference.
We can't do that here. (Or can we?)
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And of course that doesn't get into the various things we've learnt about writing such cases in the first place.
There are so many unknowns here, and so it's so much fun to pin things down.
Expect a public beta release soon.
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Oh, one last thing: the bit that's actually still very worrying to me is that I'll pick out spurious concepts from the cases we're covering.
Right now we're working our way through the canon of established business concepts. But eventually we'll run out.
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At that point, I may have to dip into certain business patterns I've noticed, that aren't really talked about in the mainstream literature.
That makes me feel rather uncomfortable, because I tend to wait YEARS before I'm sure about a pattern.
I guess we'll see.
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I’m pleased to announce that the beta is accepting signups now:
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