TOPIC: Go to www.funderstanding.com. This web site has about learning in both company and school (k-12) environments. Click on the “About Learning” icon. Click on the “How Learning Should be Designed” hyperlink. Several learning theories are listed. A definition and basic elements of each theory are provided. Choose any one of the learning theories shown. Be prepared in class to define the theory‚ describe its elements‚ and discuss how it could be used in the design of a training program. Introduction:
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Discuss a view of learning introduced in this module. Relate this to the experience of students in higher education. This assignment will address andragogy – a theory of learning. To do this it will focus on the specific areas of andragogy and compare them to other theories of learning. The theory of andragogy has been around for nearly two centuries and the findings are particularly linked to the work of Malcolm Knowles. The judgements will be related to the experiences of students in higher education
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low-skilled adult. The industry has changed over the past decade‚ putting adults out of work who now require education‚ and the credentials to build their abilities to earn family wages (O’neill and Thomson 2013). Adult students are not only returning to school for their job security but also to gain more knowledge in the technology world. The adult students grew up with a hardbound textbook now students have the luxury of electronic books which is something that most adult students are not familiar
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do after high school. My sister had wanted to be a nursing assistant for the longest time and my brother had wanted to be a lawyer. Although my sister wasn’t the smartest in school she still passed and graduated with her class‚ but did not go to college. My brother on the other hand had a different path to become a lawyer‚ which he could have with his grades‚ but did not. He decided to enlist in the military and hoped to go to school afterwards. Although he had planned it all out‚ he didn’t follow
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of the Learning Organization (1990). He can be said to be responsible for the popularity of the concept of a ‘learning organization’ today. Peter Senge argues that not only we humans learn‚ but organizations also. However‚ learning itself may not be enough for the organization to survive in this ever-challenging era. In his book‚ The Fifth Discipline‚ Senge introduced five ‘disciplines’‚ namely systems thinking‚ personal mastery‚ mental models‚ building shared vision‚ and team learning‚ that characterizes
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education and family life contributes to the pressures of military and veteran students. It is understandable that traditional adult students make numerous sacrifices to return to higher education. Higher education is only one of the many activities in which they are involved. More so‚ military students are the nontraditional students with additional stressors that are very different from the traditional students. These stressors contribute to the difficulties they experience in pursuing higher
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1. Domains of learning Bloom’s taxonomy (cited in Petty 1998) provides the basis for classifying learning into domains and thus highlights learning outcomes should be hierarchical and concerned with different forms of learning. The cognitive domain is concerned with knowledge and knowing‚ the psychomotor domain is concerned with physical skills and the affective domain concerns itself with attention‚ awareness‚ moral‚ aesthetic and other attitudes opinions or values. Reece and Walker (2009)
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Online learning verses Traditional learning Coming up with the most suitable way to have classes is one thing that is blocked by many problems. As it has always been the case‚ many people prefer having their classes in the traditional way to taking online classes. However‚ online classes seem to overweigh traditional classes in many ways such as; time management‚ availability of resources and also the fact that one can take an online class easily while doing a job at the same time. The option
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person grows. One goes from being a child‚ to being an adult‚ and while growing‚ the most effective forms of learning change. Some of the best learning styles for adults would have very little effect on children‚ and vice versa. “Journal of Workplace Learning” and “Simulation and Adult Learning” show some of the most effective ways to help adults to learn quickly and easily. “Journal of Workplace Learning” covers one of the easiest methods for learning‚ that of storytelling. Enzo Caminotti and Jeremy
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Characteristics of adult learning Education of children is compulsory‚ formal and standardized. Adult learning is voluntary and intentional. The aim of adult education is the independent self-directed learner. Adults tend to resist a learning process which is incongruent with their self-concept as autonomous individuals and does not correspond to their needs and interests. Adult learning is learner-centered What children learn in school should be useful to them — but later in life. Child learning is subject-centered
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