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I believe this to be particularly true for interactive, discussion-driven classes. A well-conceived, thoughtful, and funny three-to-five-minute edcom can provide enough colorful examples, metaphors, and memes to sustain a lively discussion for up to 90 minutes as participants keep returning to and building on ideas.
In addition, the shared fun experience provides a social lubricant that helps create a positive atmosphere conducive to learning. I believe that the TBS edcoms on such different topics as market efficiency, consumer psychology, and probability updating all strongly support this proposition.
To gauge the effect of humor on the learning process, we subjected Obeid to the torturous experience of recording nonfunny versions of several of the videos so we could compare assessments of student learning. Then, as reported in a paper co-written with my TBS colleagues, we randomly assigned the humorous and nonhumorous videos to learners. We found that humor increases engagement, which in turn improves test results.
Our edcoms have also made an impact outside of TBS. We made the videos and the corresponding teaching notes available at no cost, and scores of business academics around the world have used them in their own teaching. But our original bet on this collaboration was nothing if not risky.
The ways a comedian and an educator conceive of an exposition are very different. Obeid and I bumped heads countless times over every possible issue—scripts, pacing, visuals, slang, music, you name it. There was also the stress that comes with any high-stakes creative endeavor.
This worry is less familiar territory to educators. Yet circumstances are increasingly requiring educators to innovate under pressure—and I was all too aware of the pressure on that August day while we were preparing to deliver our workshop at the Academy of Management conference.
But I knew that our educator-comedian tandem was special, and I had to trust that our product would be, too. The topic that emerged from the workshop was the Expectancy Theory of Motivation proposed by Victor Vroom in While the topic was new to both Obeid and me, we kept our word and recorded an edcom about it three days later.
Since its creation, this edcom has been deployed in dozens of classrooms. For example, Eric Sanders at Elmhurst University in Illinois used the video in an online, asynchronous undergraduate course on organizational behavior. During a module on motivation, he had the 20 students in the class watch the video, then propose their own serious or funny applications of expectancy theory.
National Comedy School. Image source, Ecole nationale de l'humour. The National Comedy School has been running training courses for firms since About half of them on a good day, he replied. Participants at the National Comedy School's training days are asked to embrace their inner clowns. Image source, Andreane Williams. Louise Richer says she is evangelical about comedy being able to help the world of business.
Image source, Improv Asylum. Improv Asylum has given workshops to hundreds of Google workers. Improv Asylum also does more intimate training sessions. Image source, Richie Moriarty. Chet Harding says that humour increases creativity.
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