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Kristen Della

Development of the PRO-SDLS: A Measure of Self-Direction in Learning Based on the Perso... - 0 views

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self-directed learning self-direction personal responsibility process

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  • Kristen Della on 30 May 11
     
    Development of the PRO-SDLS: A Measure of Self-Direction in Learning Based on the Personal Responsibility Orientation Model. The purpose of this study was to develop a reliable and valid instrument to measure self-directedness in learning among college students based on an operationalization of the personal responsibility orientation (PRO) model of self-direction in learning. The resultant 25-item Personal Responsibility Orientation to Self-Direction in Learning Scale (PRO-SDLS) was found to be a highly reliable instrument in the selected sample of graduate and undergraduate education students. Confirmatory factor analysis established that a four latent variable model fit the data. Scores from the PRO-SDLS were significantly related to criterion variables thought to demonstrate self-direction and to a known instrument of self-direction while accounting for additional variance. Recommendations for further research in the ongoing process of scale validation and implications for practice are provided
Amy M

Apple - MacBook Pro Family - It's never been more powerful. - 0 views

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  • Amy M on 20 Jun 12
     
    New line of Macs
Joan Erickson

Online Learning Is Growing on Campus - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...05college.html

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  • online
  • 1,500 undergraduates are enrolled and no lecture hall
  • resident students are earning 12 percent of their credit hours online this semester
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  • earning 12 percent
  • despite internal research showing that online students do slightly less well in grammar and speaking
  • Joan Erickson on 08 Nov 10
     
    pros and cons of online education
Tina Bianchi

A Conundrum: Rubrics or Creativity Metacognitive Development? - 0 views

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education teaching

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  • Tina Bianchi on 02 Jun 12
     
    An article about the pros and cons of rubrics
Amy M

Connecting with Experts in the Real World: Educators Learn to Teach Science From the Pr... - 1 views

www.edutopia.org/connecting-experts-real-world

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  • ratorium's Teacher Institute, explains the conceptual design of their new-teacher-induction program. "Beginning teachers are immediately introduced into an established community of exemplary science teachers who themselves are part of a professional community of learners at the Exploratorium
  • mentees
  • nsylvania. The program provides technical and writing support as well as an opportunity for teachers to collaborate with their peers on the development of Web-based resources
  • Amy M on 19 Jul 12
     
    ways to connect to experts in the field
Amy M

Ebook Trends: Info Pros Perspectives - 1 views

www.web2learning.net/...5077

shared by Amy M on 08 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • What we’re using now to facilitate the delivery of electronic content is broken. The current methods are very ex
  • e’re broke: How many of you have indoor basketball courts in your library? Overdrive does. 300% is as bad as it’s gonna get: It’s going to get worse before it gets better. It has to be so bad that the public starts to roar. If gas prices went up 300% there would be riots in the street The publishers are forcing us to prevent you from owning these. Sarah has talked to the publishers – they actually don’t care.
  • Amy M on 08 Jun 12
     
    using ebooks in a librarian, current trends in finding information
Diana Cary

Adobe Acrobat ConnectPro - 0 views

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Adobe Connect Pro web conferencing tool

shared by Diana Cary on 29 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Adobe® Connect™ is an enterprise web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars used by leading corporations and government agencies.
  • It is useful for synchronous sessions for online courses
Jennifer Boisvert

Adobe - Acrobat Connect Pro Resource Center - 0 views

www.adobe.com/...acrobatconnect

adobe conference_room connectpro connect acrobat

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  • Jennifer Boisvert on 13 Jun 09
     
    Serves as an online conference room.
ian august

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surfer laird hamilton exercise training pro

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  • ian august on 27 May 11
     
    Top big wave surfer
JJ Wagner

How Military Personnel Are Using Online Learning to Get Their Degrees | Military Educat... - 0 views

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online learning military pros

shared by JJ Wagner on 06 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • The military has always been a great opportunity for advancement. In 2009, 375,000 service men and women were simultaneously pursuing a civilian degree. What many people find surprising, however is that three out of four students in the military were enrolled in some form of distance learning.
JJ Wagner

University of Florida News - Online classes can save schools money, expand learning tim... - 0 views

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financial pros

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  • JJ Wagner on 06 Jun 11
     
    "Based on a 2008 survey of 20 virtual schools in 14 states, UF researchers found that the average yearly cost of online learning per full-time pupil was about $4,300. This compared with a national average cost per pupil of more than $9,100 for a traditional public school in 2006 (the most recent year in which such data was available). Their cost estimates covered course development and teaching, and administrative and technical expenses. "
Diane Gusa

The Application of Learning Style Theory in Higher Education Teaching - 0 views

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education Intelligence Multiple learningTheory Learning Styles

shared by Diane Gusa on 29 Jun 11 - Cached
  • A learning style is: "A complexus of related characteristics in which the whole is greater than its parts. Learning style is a gestalt combining internal and external operations derived from the individual's neurobiology, personality and development, and reflected in learner behaviour" (Keefe & Ferrell 1990, p. 16).
  • general tendency towards a particular learning approach displayed by an individual.
  • Riding & Cheema (1991), from an extensive review of the literature, conclude there are only two principal styles "families", the holist-analytic, and the verbaliser-imager. These two broad groupings relate to the type of cognitive activities normally ascribed to the two hemispheres of the brain. Curry (1983) suggests there are three different perspectives on styles: those relating to a preference for a particular instructional approach, those relating to the individual's intellectual approach to assimilating information independently of the environment, and those relating to the individual's intellectual approach to assimilating information with the environment.
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  • Dunn, Deckinger, Withers & Katzenstein (1990), who found that teaching students based on their diagnosed learning style did significantly increase their achievement level (see also Napolitano 1986).
  • Research indicates learning style is not a stable construct, so one may alter instructional style to meet a learning style that will itself change, requiring a further change in instructional strategy.
  • Researchers have failed to address the question of how it is possible to achieve a tailoring of instructional approaches on anything other than an individual level.
  • What may be possible is to promote an educational environment developed for flexibility at the individual student level.
  • What is required is a stimulus-stimulus approach, where the student and the lecturer are actively involved in both learning and the mechanics of the learning process, the aim being to facilitate learner empowerment by developing in students a critical awareness of material studied and the delivery and structure of the material. Learners can then tailor flexible education strategies to their requirements to optimise the quality of the learning experience.
  • his ability of an individual to actively select from a personal style or skills portfolio, is part of what can be termed self-directed learning
  • In an educational setting, a self-directed learner no longer operates as a passive receiver of information, but takes responsibility for the achievement, and ultimately setting, of learning outcomes. In essence, the traditional lecturer-student divide becomes increasingly blurred, as the learner begins to pro-actively structure the programme to match their own learning attributes.
  • facilitator, and finally to that of a resource to be tapped
  • lecturer's role
  • Under such an approach, higher education ceases to be simply something that is done to people, and becomes a platform from which individuals can go on to, in effect, educate themselves
  • "causer of learning".
  • This approach will tend to create learned helplessness in people
  • Higher education should be concerned with not only enhancing learning in a specific situation, but should also constitute a catalyst for further self-initiated development of the individual, above and beyond the contents and aims of a particular course. T
  • The lecturer must avoid removing traditional barriers to self-direction, such as a rigid programme structure, only to erect new barriers through the use of prescriptive self-direction strategies imposed on the student.
  • allow the individual the freedom to define and devise learning strategies, and to make mistakes. T
  • The role of the lecturer must be essentially non-interventionist, unless the student seeks guidance
  • as people may still not choose to direct their own learning due to: a lack of belief in their own ability, a failure by them to recognise that self-direction is needed or preferable, the setting of an inappropriate learning goal(s) that fails to act as a motivator, and previous learning and education experiences.
  • That educational system primarily tends to concentrate on didactic approaches that often view learning as being of secondary importance to memory, where information acquisition and subsequent information regurgitation predominate.
  • This will require that the lecturer breaks down barriers to learning and self-direction that may be present. This covers: those barriers created by the student during the course (wrong choice of learning approach, poor motivation, lack of confidence), those barriers that the course itself may indirectly create (lack of flexibility, lack of direction and guidance, poor structure), and those barriers that the student brings to the course (reason for attending the course, poor learning skills, previous bad learning experiences).
  • In the initial stages of a programme, the lecturer will need to ensure the existence of an appropriate control structure, as students undergo the transition from being other-directed in their learning by external influences, to being self-directed.
  • caffold structure
  • clearly communicated and understood aims and objectives for the students at regular intervals.
  • allows students to progressively take control of their learning,
  • but that also offers sufficient guidance and direction in the early stages to prevent individuals from becoming lost.
  • The application of learning style theory in higher education teaching
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 29 Jun 11
       
      This would take a very brave instructor to do this. However, I know of colleges (Goddard for one) that does exactly this in their graduate program.
Michael Lucatorto

The Legend of Cliff Young: The 61 Year Old Farmer Who Won the World's Toughest Race - E... - 0 views

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  • Latest Usain Bolt Breaks 200m World Record at Olympics Usain Bolt Wins Olympic Gold with 100m World Record Olympic Start Gun Gives Advantage to Runners on Inside Lanes
  • When the race started, the pros quickly left Cliff behind. The crowds and television audience were entertained because Cliff didn't even run properly; he appeared to shuffle. Many even feared for the old farmer's safety
  • Today, the "Young-shuffle" has been adopted by ultra-marathon runners because it is considered more energy-efficient. At least three champions of the Sydney to Melbourne race have used the shuffle to win the race. Furthermore, during the Sydney to Melbourne race, modern competitors do not sleep. Winning the race requires runners to go all night as well as all day, just like Cliff Young
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  • All of the professional athletes knew that it took about 5 days to finish the race. In order to compete, one had to run about 18 hours a day and sleep the remaining 6 hours. The thing is, Cliff Young didn't know that! When the morning of the second day came, everyone was in for another surprise. Not only was Cliff still in the race, he had continued jogging all night.
  • Cliff kept running. Each night he came a little closer to the leading pack. By the final night, he had surpassed all of the young, world-class athletes. He was the first competitor to cross the finish line and he set a new course record.
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