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Alicia Fernandez

Assessment and Student Learning: a fundamental relationship and the role of information... - 0 views

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    Role of assessment in student learning and its relationship with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT).
Alicia Fernandez

Online social networks as formal learning environments: Learner experiences and activit... - 0 views

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    Case study of learners' perspectives and experiences in an online course taught using the Elgg online social network. Findings indicate that learners enjoyed and appreciated both the social learning experience afforded by the online social network and supported one another in their learning, enhancing their own and other students' experiences. Conversely, results also indicate that students limited their participation to course-related and graded activities, exhibiting little use of social networking and sharing. Additionally, learners needed support in managing the expanded amount of information available to them and devised strategies and "workarounds" to manage their time and participation.
Sue Rappazzo

30 THINGS WE KNOW FOR SURE ABOUT ADULT LEARNING - 2 views

  • Information that conflicts sharply with what is already held to be true, and thus forces a re-evaluation of the old material, is integrated more slowly.
  • Adults prefer self-directed and self-designed learning projects over group-learning experience
  • Self-direction does not mean isolation. Studies of self-directed learning indicate that self-directed projects involve an average of 10 other people as resources, guides, encouragers and the like. But even for the self-professed, self-directed learner, lectures and short seminars get positive ratings, especially when these events give the learner face-to-face, one-to-one access to an expert.
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  • The learning environment must be physically and psychologically comfortable
  • Adults have something real to lose in a classroom situation. Self-esteem and ego a
  • Adults have expectations, a
  • Adults bring a great deal of life experienc
  • Instructors who have a tendency to hold forth rather than facilitate can hold that tendency in check--or compensate for it--by concentrating on the use of open-ended questions to draw out relevant student knowledge and experience.
  • New knowledge has to be integrated with previous knowledge; students must actively participate in the learning experience.
  • The key to the instructor role is control. The instructor must balance the presentation of new material, debate and discussion, sharing of relevant student experiences, and the clock.
  • The instructor has to protect minority opinion, keep disagreements civil and unheated, make connections between various opinions and ideas, and keep reminding the group of the variety of potential solutions to the problem. The instructor is less advocate than orchestrator.
  • Integration of new knowledge and skill requires transition time and focused effort on application. Learning and teaching theories function better as resources than as a Rosetta stone. A skill-training task can draw much from the behavioral approach, for example, while personal growth-centered subjects seem to draw gainfully from humanistic concepts. An eclectic, rather than a single theory-based approach to developing strategies and procedures, is recommended for matching instruction to learning tasks.
Teresa Dobler

Educational Leadership:Giving Students Meaningful Work:Seven Essentials for Project-Bas... - 0 views

  • personally meaningful
  • educational purpose.
  • "entry event" that engages interest and initiates questioning
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  • sets up a scenario
  • sense of purpose and challeng
  • provocative, open-ended, complex, and linked to the core of what you want students to learn.
  • more voice and choice
  • s collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology
  • fine-tuned their questions
  • investigated new questions
  • students follow a trail that begins with their own questions, leads to a search for resources and the discovery of answ
  • rs, and often ultimately leads to generating new questions, testing ideas, and drawing their own conclusion
sschwartz03

Getting the Mix Right Again: An Updated and Theoretical Rationale for Interaction | And... - 2 views

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    Research of six types of interaction that can lead to a meaningful" distance education experience.
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    An article on interaction in educational settings.
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