Welcome to 4MAT Online Design Software!

4MATION Design Sofware is a 4MAT Design Community for teachers, trainers, and Educational Administrators that are working to design and develop more dynamic and engaging learning experiences that address the different ways people learn.

This software provides you with step by step guidance in creating 4MAT teaching or training designs, a library of exemplary 4MAT Designs, video tutorials on the application and use of 4MAT and other resources and tools for helping design and develop high impact teaching or training that reflects the natural way people learn.

Over 5,000 4MAT Teaching Designs have been posted on this web site since its inception.

ABOUT THE 4MAT® DESIGN METHOD

4MAT is an open ended framework that helps teachers design instruction in more dynamic and inclusive ways, accounting for the different ways students learn, and providing more dynamic and engaging learning experiences. 4MAT is a natural cycle of Learning that promotes higher levels of student participation and engagement.

This program has been implemented in thousands of educational and training organizations throughout the world, including Qassim University, The Center for Creative Leadership, Chicago Public Schools, Metro Nashville Schools, The Cleveland Clinic, Harvard Medical School, and many other leading educational institutions.

Some benefits of 4MAT Natural Cycle of Learning are as follows:

• It is a highly interactive and dynamic approach to teaching
• It is an interactive process, that is teacher and student centered
• It Provides structure and organization to teaching
• It is a practical and logical tool for designing learning
• Lets the students use their experience and previous knowledge to engage them in learning.
• It Increases the quality of learning outcomes
• When the education process begins by bringing out the learner s beliefs and theories, examining and testing them, and then integrating the new, more refined ideas into the person's belief system, the learning process is facilitated.

Contact About Learning at (800) 822-4MAT to learn more about how to obtain a subscription that will enable you to create and post your own original 4MAT Teaching or Training Designs.