Learning styles in education and training

Learning styles in education and training
Author: Carol Evans
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2006
Genre: Learning strategies
ISBN: 1845449363

The application of learning styles theory and research continues to hold great promise for practitioners in both education and training as a potentially powerful mechanism for enabling pupils, students and trainees to better manage their own learning throughout their educational and working lives. The selection of papers from the 10th annual European Learning Styles Information Network conference (held in July 2005 at the School of Management, University of Surrey) presented here raise a number of pertinent issues which are significant in the on-going debate regarding the value of cognitive a.

e-Learning by Design

e-Learning by Design
Author: William Horton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 639
Release: 2011-01-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118047125

From William Horton -- a world renowned expert with more than thirty-five years of hands-on experience creating networked-based educational systems -- comes the next-step resource for e-learning training professionals. Like his best-selling book Designing Web-Based Training, this book is a comprehensive resource that provides practical guidance for making the thousand and one decisions needed to design effective e-learning. e-Learning by Design includes a systematic, flexible, and rapid design process covering every phase of designing e-learning. Free of academic jargon and confusing theory, this down-to-earth, hands-on book is filled with hundreds of real-world examples and case studies from dozens of fields. "Like the book's predecessor (Designing Web-based Training), it deserves four stars and is a must read for anyone not selling an expensive solution. -- From Training Media Review, by Jon Aleckson, www.tmreview.com, 2007

Engage

Engage
Author: Jeanine O'Neill-Blackwell
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2012-08-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118236041

Discover Your Training Style Strengths and Build Your Skills with Online Tools, Videos, and More "A superb book that gives learning and development professionals in every industry an automatic must-read. This book is filled with wisdom and insight as well as clear analytic models and real actionable concrete steps." -- Bruce Tulgan, author of It's OK to Be the Boss and Managing Generation X "Engage takes the innovation of 4MAT® and looks at it through the lens of the trainer. An engaging learning experience itself, Engage is full of interactive assessments, links to videos, and foolproof action plans and ideas designed to transform any learning event into a dynamic learning experience."-- Shelley Barnes, executive director, Field Education/Program Development, Aveda Corporation For any trainer who needs easy-to-apply strategies that are grounded in solid research, Engage offers a hands-on guide to understanding learning styles. It includes a four-step model for engaging all learning styles in any learning situation. The book integrates both the art and research-based science of strong instructional design reaching all learning styles with activities, tricks, and tips that are proven to boost skills quickly. Filled with illustrative examples and online companion resources, the book explores the brain research that lays the foundation for the book's 4MAT® model and includes activities and strategies that can be applied for each step in the process. Engage also gives the reader access to an online version of the 4MAT® Training Style Inventory. The results of the assessment give a strengths score in four key training roles.

Learning styles. Methods used in addressing e-learning styles

Learning styles. Methods used in addressing e-learning styles
Author: Bright Asante Britwum
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 10
Release: 2020-07-07
Genre: Education
ISBN: 3346197182

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject Didactics - Common Didactics, Educational Objectives, Methods, , language: English, abstract: People are thought to be unique in processing information, so teachers should understand the different learning styles of their students. Everyone has a prevailing learning style depending on the situation, and instructors need to realize what the preferred patterns of their students are in order to make it easier for the students to understand the learning process. Understanding the learning styles of students will help students find the right way to learn and assess their strengths and weaknesses. In the same way, identifying the learning styles of the students will help the teacher to impact his or her lessons to suit all learning styles in the classroom. You will therefore have a clearer picture of the teaching and learning process and a greater awareness of the learning process.

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning

The Theory and Practice of Online Learning
Author: Terry Anderson
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Total Pages: 485
Release: 2008
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1897425082

"Neither an academic tome nor a prescriptive 'how to' guide, The Theory and Practice of Online Learning is an illuminating collection of essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex field of distance education. Distance education has evolved significantly in its 150 years of existence. For most of this time, it was an individual pursuit defined by infrequent postal communication. But recently, three more developmental generations have emerged, supported by television and radio, teleconferencing, and computer conferencing. The early 21st century has produced a fifth generation, based on autonomous agents and intelligent, database-assisted learning, that has been referred to as Web 2.0. The second edition of "The Theory and Practice of Online Learning" features updates in each chapter, plus four new chapters on current distance education issues such as connectivism and social software innovations."--BOOK JACKET.

Learning Tasks

Learning Tasks
Author: Richard S. Baskas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 20
Release: 2012
Genre:
ISBN:

Government budget constraints had forced the Emergency Dispatch Center (EDC) at a military installation to work with less than the normal number of staff. A Program Proposal was developed previously that had determined that a learning gap existed in the researcher's work environment at a military installation. To counter this gap, Learning Tasks were developed to determine the best curriculum for dispatchers to instruct firefighters in becoming 911 Dispatchers when the need became available. The purpose of this study was to develop Learning Tasks to determine what firefighters would need to do to learn the content and accomplish achievement-based objectives. The data for this study were drawn from the dispatchers and firefighters at the fire department where the training would need to take place. The population for this study came from the EDC dispatchers and firefighters. A literature review was conducted through Google Scholar and Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) where primary and secondary sources were located to support the curriculum. Results of the literature review and learning tasks indicated a very comprehensive and effective curriculum. The author suggests that the results provide for a very effective curriculum if collaboration exists continuously between dispatchers and firefighters.