Total Recall Learning

The Total Recall Learning (TRL) approach combines learning and assessment into one seamless activity. Our programs continually probe the student, finding out at each instant what the student can and cannot do. This individualized learning approach assures long‑term retention of learned material, while drastically reducing study time.

This overview is presented in multiple sections:

» A simple explanation even a child could understand
» How students can drastically decrease study time
» How educators can reduce their workload by using TRL
» Maximizing training dollars at educational institutions.

Here is a simple explanation for kids (or kids of any age). As a child, you know that you forget things easily. Knowing this makes you smarter than most adults. Adults often believe that once they learn something, they will actually remember it. And that is where adults are wrong.

Can you think back at the time when you learned your multiplication tables? Your mom made 100 flashcards for the times tables from 1 through 10. She would go through the entire set of cards until you got the right answer for each card. Of course, you knew that you would forget most of the answers by the next day.

The following day, mom would go with you through the cards again and sort the cards into two stacks: the cards you remembered and the cards you forgot. Over the next few days, she would continue to sort the cards into several more stacks depending on your answers. With her diligent sorting and repetition system, even the most difficult multiplication eventually stuck in your mind. And then, you never forgot your multiplication tables again!

The Total Recall program works in a similar way. Learning becomes fun, just like a game. And you remember everything you learn! Isn't that how learning should be?

As a student of any age, you want to minimize your study time and maximize what you remember. This approach results in immediate and future time‑savings, as you do not have to re‑learn anything. More time for your family; more time to party!

But what happens when you learn new material in the normal way? You will forget 65% in just a single day! At the end of one month, 80% of all learned material is forgotten! What a waste of time and effort! That is when TRL comes to the rescue. The program's artificial intelligence continually monitors your retention to eliminate forgetting. And all courses are presented in a highly engaging multimedia format, so learning becomes an exciting adventure!

Since TRL courses contain the essential knowledge building blocks and key terms for a specific subject area, laborious reading is not required. Just use the program for a few minutes a day, and it systematically sorts known material from forgotten material, until you remember everything for good. This approach drastically reduces overall study time, makes test taking a breeze, and allows you to easily follow a teacher's lecture.

Many TRL courses support in‑class learning. Others can be used instead of taking a class. And most courses can even be used for remedial study to prepare for college or other education endeavors.

As an educator, you need to know that your students know. If a student has not learned the gateway skills and key concepts, higher‑level learning is simply impossible. Therefore, the use of TRL as an ancillary product to build the foundation of knowledge is not just beneficial, but becomes a time‑saving necessity.

TRL's online learning system monitors the progress of each student and reports the results to the instructor. Since learning and assessment are combined into one seamless activity, the need to administer time‑consuming quizzes and tests is drastically reduced. The instructor has rock‑solid proof of how much each student knows or does not know. Yes, TRL truly makes memory measurable!

The TRL pedagogy is based upon the research conducted by Dr. Hermann Ebbinghaus. Through time‑phased and systematically sequenced repetition, the artificial intelligence software counteracts the phenomena outlined in Ebbinghaus' Curve of Forgetting.

The TRL database keeps track of every single student response and interaction, and customizes the learning sequence to each individual user at every instance the user responds to a question. Instead of just remembering 20% of what is learned, students retain over 90% of learned material in the long‑term.

Working successfully in a team is only possible when all team members share the same knowledge about a specific subject. The environment may be in an educational institution, a corporation, or mission‑critical settings such as a hospital or the Armed Forces. Since Ebbinghaus proved that the outcome of traditional learning barely reaches 20% recall, team synthesis is difficult to achieve without TRL.

A typical case is when trainees have taken the same class, and initially achieved good results (due to "cramming" before a test). However, since every person remembers different parts of the material, the 20% of retained knowledge may have little or no overlap.

With TRL intervention, team synthesis becomes quickly apparent. The retained knowledge starts to overlap more and more as each trainee comes closer to the program's total recall level. In mission‑critical environments, nothing less than complete team synthesis will suffice. Since training with TRL achieves knowledge retention in excess of 90%, all team members recall the same knowledge base.

With the TRL approach, training dollars are maximized by accelerating classroom throughput and making true team synthesis possible. At the same time, the ability to measure long‑term memory retention provides a powerful new tool to evaluate training outcomes.