environment and online learning‚ using a proprietary learning management system (LMS) named adaptive hypermedia courseware (AHyCo). AHyCo is based on adaptive hypermedia and in addition to supporting learning and testing‚ introduces completely new constructivist and cognitivist elements to education. By supporting collaborative and project-oriented activities AHyCo promotes students’ motivation for learning and establishes learning as an active and interactive process. Blended learning refers to a mixing
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Principles for Planning and Enabling Learning Assignment Task 1 “The single most characteristic about human beings is that they learn” (Bruner‚ 1960:113). This may be true‚ but to what extent do they learn? Lockitt (1997) suggests that both good and bad learning experience can affect learning. By the time learners’ reach adult or further education they would have already met with a range of learning experiences‚ good or bad. “Many learners wrongly believe that learning comes with age and the older you
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PSYCHOLOGY OF LEARNING Learning is a process that depends on experience and leads to long-term changes in behavior potential. Behavior potential designates the possible behavior of an individual‚ not actual behavior. The main assumption behind all learning psychology is that the effects of the environment‚ conditioning‚ reinforcement‚ etc. provide psychologists with the best information from which to understand human behavior. As opposed to short term changes in behavior potential (caused e.g.
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What is learning? From born to dead‚ we non-stop to learning‚ how to sound‚ walk‚ study knowledge‚ even working skill. We learn in our whole life. But what is learning? Why we need to learn? Is it to follow other success person so we need to learn? Gagné(1965) describe learning as four factors‚ Drive‚ Stimulus‚ Response and Reinforcement. For every learning process before it start there are also have a reason to basic on‚ whatever we are learning a knowledge or a skill. And this is the factor of
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What are learning disabilities? Learning disabilities‚ or learning disorders‚ are an umbrella term for a wide variety of learning problems. A learning disability is not a problem with intelligence or motivation. Kids with learning disabilities aren’t lazy or dumb. In fact‚ most are just as smart as everyone else. Their brains are simply wired differently. These differences affects how they receive and process information. Simply put‚ children and adults with learning disabilities see‚ hear‚ and
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Learning Disabilities When a child doesn’t seem to be learning‚ some teachers and parents in his/her life might criticize the child and think of them as stupid‚ or maybe just too lazy to want to learn. What they don’t realize is that the child might have a learning disability. But how are these children being helped? There are many programs‚ special schools and facilities‚ home teaching methods and many other ways in which children with Learning Disabilities are being helped. There are many
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Distance learning Distance learning has been around for a long time in the form of correspondence‚ in which assignments were completed without supervision and submitted to an instructor via mail. Most courses were quite basic and did not allow for much‚ if any‚ teacher-student or student-teacher interaction. The introduction of the Internet‚ however‚ changed this model for delivering and submitting educational content. Computers allow more complicated information‚ more engaging instructional materials
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Goh‚ S. C. (1998). Toward a Learning Organization: The Strategic Building Blocks. Advanced Management Journal‚ 63(2)‚ 15-22. This article proposes that there are five strategic building blocks and two supporting foundations in order to build a learning organization. The five building blocks----mission and vision‚ leadership‚ experimentation‚ transfer of knowledge‚ and teamwork and cooperation‚ are summarized from literature. Also‚ the author believes that these building blocks require two major
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Associative Learning Draft Kenneth Price PSY 331 Psychology of Learning Laura Prout July 18‚ 2010 Associative Learning Perhaps it might be said that a burden has been place on every living thing that it must adapt or perish as no single life form‚ as we know it‚ is truly an island unto its self. How living things accomplish this adaptation is unique not only to each species but may also be unique to each living entity. One may debate whether this is the product of grand design or billions
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1 Learning Summary points and learning objectives By the end of this chapter you will be able to: q q q q q understand the components of classical conditioning; provide an example of how classical conditioning helps explain workplace behaviour; understand the basic components of operant conditioning; detail the schedules of reinforcement; provide some examples of how operant conditioning helps explain workplace behaviour; discuss the idea of a ‘technology of behaviour’; give examples of a ‘technology
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