Unique features of BrainFoodToGo.com methodology

The BrainFoodToGo.com (BFTG.com) approach to individual self-enhancement for learners and leaders incorporates characteristics that are not typically found in most other personal development programs. These innovations include:

Crowdsourcing

The emergence of new technologies now permits knowledge-seeking individuals and groups to garner inputs from a wide arena. Heretofore, idea generating techniques like brainstorming were constrained by the size of the room and the peculiar nature of the limited number of individuals who were invited to participate. Now, new Internet and social media platforms allow curious folk to rustle-up knowledge, know-how, and opinion from global pastures. Tip Lists are one of the most effective tools we have developed for efficaciously gleaning, sharing, and archiving such treasures.

Collaboration

Interactive, iterative learning among peers in a social context allows knowledge seekers to reap the benefits of multiple applied talents. With the communications technology available today, the traditional student-teacher paradigm can be productively embellished with student-student, student-practitioner, and student-alumni interfaces that facilitate the free exchange of articles, term papers, case studies, surveys, book reviews, exercises, podcasts, tip lists, interviews, and PowerPoint™ presentations. Such proactive learning allows teachers to escape the role of "talking textbook" and become designers of intellectual experiences. Thus, they enjoy more time for student interaction, assessment, research, and the supplementation of existing course content.

Custom construction

With the BFTG.com platform, aspiring learners, in concert with accomplished leaders, can create class materials, entire courses, web portals that are current and maximally relevant to a learning experience. In fact, with the BFTG.com approach, static textbooks can be supplanted by experience-based, up-to-the-minute insights and know-how that are contemporarily delivered as low cost print or e-books.

Cross-community engagement

Thanks to the BFTG.com global portal, a learning experience can now engage more than a single campus, company, community, or continent. Libraries are morphing from "places where stuff is stored" to "platforms that facilitate comprehensive, convenient, cost-free access to stuff that is known – or has been known -- anywhere."

Continuity

Archives like those maintained by BrainFoodToGo.com live on to serve future generations of students, teachers and leaders. This "wiki" type of accumulation affords continuously generates an ever-expanding menu of intellectual content.

Compatibility

The BrainFood served at the BFTG.com portal ideally accommodates contemporary student attention spans and proclivities for bite-size content, computer based interactivity, social networking, and speed of achievement. The nature of the BFTG.com portal motivates its users to employ currently appealing and newly emerging technologies for personal enhancement as well as for diversion and entertainment.