AAT Alumni

Advanced Animal Training – the alumni invitation

Welcome to rejoin me – and your fellow students – for another round of the AAT course! 🎉🥳

The 2023 course will be dismantled at the end of April 2024, so the only way to stay with the material beyond that deadline is to re-join as an alumnus.

Each year, the old course gets dismantled, so when you join again, it’s with all the new students, and with the modules released weekly as before, in a new and hopefully improved version of the course.

What’s new? Well, every year I lift new questions/answers from the comments section, and update the links lists. Also, I’ve made some big revisions or completely new chapters over the years since I created the course in 2018:

• 2019: revised extrinsic / intrinsic chapter; added chapter on the overjustification effect; removed 4 chapters and revised others in the reinforcement schedules module and added chapter on errorless learning
• 2020: added behaviourist definition of “superstitious behaviour”
• 2021: added voluntary self-assessment quizzes to all modules
• 2022: major adjustments to the negative reinforcement as well as the shaping module.
• 2023: minor adjustments to the sections on Core Affect Space, Non-Reward Markers and Choice, R-, Emotions and Schedules of Reinforcement.
• 2024: still unclear; I make revisions as the course is released – Matching Law at least will be updated, as well as adding a section in the Shaping module related to gradual change procedures in all parts of the ABCs, as well as a kitty example of group training.

This course offer (at US$89:-, slightly less than 20% of the full price) is only available if you’ve already taken the Advanced Animal Training course.

The “real” course starts April 26th, when I’m releasing Module 1 (Processes – animals and learning) – which is when this offer ends.

The offer is now closed – but you’ll get another chance next year, no worries! 🙂