Discover Fun

Increased Productivity

Dr. David Cheng and Dr. Lu Wang performed research on 124 students from a large Australian University. They found that humor increases our ability be more productive and accurate in executing tasks.

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Increased Creativity

55% of individuals surveyed said that if they participated in a fun activity in the last 6 months, they were more creative.

Safer Workplaces with Less Absenteeism

Embracing fun can pay dividends at the workplace. According to Gallup and the Queen’s School of Business, workers who operated in a stressful workplace tended to become more disengaged and suffer from burnout. These employees had 49% more accidents and 37% higher absenteeism.

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Is fun learning really that important?

In a study performed by Dr. Randall L. Garner, he randomly assigned two groups consisting of 117 undergraduate students to review three 40-minute identical lecture videos about statistics. One group’s video were injected with humour – namely jokes.

Here are some of the results...

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Increased Enjoyment

While watching each of the statistics lectures.

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Increased Satisfaction

In how the lecture communicated information.

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Increased Evaluation Scores

For the professor who taught the course.

But most importantly...

The group with humor injected recalled and retained more information than the group with no humor.

Ok, so fun matters. But what does fun look like?

That’s a hard question to answer. Fun can take a variety of forms for different groups of people. For example, if we think about the different ages of learners...

Memes

Social Media

Video Games

Pop Culture References

TV and Film Clips

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Songs & Jingles

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Cartoons & Comics

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Stories & Case Studies

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Younger Learners

Older Learners

By creating fun and engaging learning and development programs and courses, we not only ensure our staff and students are learning more effectively, but also, we deliver value to the organization at large.

This is our core belief at Onward Learning Solutions.

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