Learning Skills for Distance Learners: Providing 21st Century Learning Support Sara Al-Oraini Dep. Curricula & Teaching Methods College of Education‚ King Saud University Abstract One of the main goals of open and distance education (ODE) programmes is to ensure that knowledge and skills gained positively affect performance or behavior. Apart from that‚ ODE programmes should also ensure learners extend their existing learning skills into new directions. However‚ it has always been a
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How to Use Performance Appraisals to Motivate Employees By Ken Lloyd from Performance Appraisals and Phrases For Dummies Motivation is the process that energizes employees and propels them to pursue their goals. Well-designed and well-executed performance appraisals have a strong motivational impact. Appraisals have the power to motivate employees because they provide a number of interconnected benefits: They demonstrate the need for improvement. If employees don’t have a clear understanding
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Human beings should not engage in animal cruelty. Human beings should not engage in animal cruelty. There is a thin line separating the differences between animals and humans‚ therefore to be cruel animals is to be cruel human beings‚ and it’s not worth it. So why not refrain from injustice treatment to animals? Animals can be trained. If only‚ human beings can adapt to establish a correlation relationship with animals‚ this can result to societal benefits. Hence‚ animals should be fairly treated
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or overlap in several of the categories making them multimodal learners. Visual learners are those who take in and process information that is in a visual format such as maps‚ graphs‚ charts and diagrams that take the place of the written word (Fleming & Mills‚ 2011). Television is not considered tools for teaching visual learners. “Visual learners prefer seeing what they are learning”. (Russell‚ 2006‚ pg 352). Auditory learners are those who learn through hearing information presented in the
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Summarizing the four contexts that motivate learning‚ (Practical‚ Personal‚ Experiential‚ and Idealistic). I believe Personal experience(s) help motivate us to learn better ways of accomplishing goals and much more. The personal is part of the experiential and practical part of learning from the personal things we come in to contact with; which brings more knowledge to learn‚ growth and bring in logic. All together we have an idealistic
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Consider ways in which you can provide learning activities which will motivate your learners and analyse both the strengths and limitations of resources available‚ with particular reference to new and developing technologies. How can functional skills (literacy‚ numeracy‚ language and ICT) be improved by using these resources to carry out activities? Learning activities form an inherent part of the learning process without which learners rates wouldn’t be retained‚ performance would be fractured‚ and
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starts Formative assessment: This is an ongoing assessment to see how learners have taken in information and can be conducted as homework‚ quizzes or informal discussions. Summative assessment: The concluding assessment to a period of teaching such as A’ levels or GSCE’s Taking the above there are for’s and against’s in all the above methods such as the exam environment can put dread into people whilst others revel in it. Many learners are more practical than exam orientated and as such would be better
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How can leaders motivate staff in order to improve productivity and job satisfaction? The purpose of this essay is to highlight the use of management theories in relation to productivity and job satisfaction. This essay shall discuss how leaders can motivate employees in order to improve the overall productivity and job satisfaction. I will be looking at theories in relation to how they are categorised‚ also how different management theories can be implemented by a leader. The essay will analyse
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people in favor of the decision‚ arguing that Pakistan has no dispute with Israel and there are numerous benefits of recognizing the Jewish state‚ while others fiercely opposing the move. The Pakistani government ’s stance is that the decision to "engage" with Israel was taken in appreciation of Israel ’s recent withdrawal from the Gaza Strip‚ and that Pakistan ’s contacts with Israel will enable it to exert pressure on Israel to resolve the Palestinian issue in a just manner. This paper looks at
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said‚ let do something different. “Can you work out how much paint you would need to buy to paint the walls of the classroom?” I explained how to work out paint needed for 1 wall and he was able to work out the surface area of the classroom walls. I then asked him‚ would you paint the glass on the windows? He asked for his worksheet back then correctly subtracted the areas of the windows and the door from the total. I then asked him‚ how much skirting board would you need for the room‚ he
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