Showing posts with label learners. Show all posts
Showing posts with label learners. Show all posts
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Becoming Creative Super Learners at IMU!
TALK SHOW
Imagine if you could read a 200-page book in 20 minutes? In today’s information overloaded disruptive world driven increasingly by innovation, we are required more than ever to transform the way we learn and think in terms of speed and creativity.
In this talk to IMU students (and anyone else interested), I will be exploring some of the things that we can do to stimulate and empower our brains and senses to be more focused, learn faster, and think more creatively.
I will also be introducing a learning facilitation method called Talk Show (New? Maybe, not sure!), which can make the learning process for especially large audiences more exciting and fun. This session wont be recorded, as this is the first time I am testing it out, and it might influence the students willingness to participate. Excited! More will be revealed in the coming days :)
PRESENTATION SLIDES
Here we go:
Becoming Creative Super Learners at IMU! from Zaid Alsagoff
This presentation only covers Level 1 of what a Creative Super Learner needs to master. Level 2 mastery skills are revealed here...
Please, remember that these Creative Super Learning skills are chunked based on how I am planning to develop the program over the next months, and not based on difficulty level (e.g. Blooms taxonomy) :)
Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Quality in e Learning from a Learners Perspective
Link to article (By Ulf-D. Ehlers. Best Paper Award at the Third EDEN Research Workshop 2004, Oldenburg, Germany)
"...In the discussion about the best strategy for e-learning it becomes more an more clear that e-learning has to be based on the learner. This includes the necessity to postulate in a clear way that the needs of the learners have to be determined in a concrete manner before starting the project. Important aspects are therefore the awareness of the learning biography, of individual learning preferences and of social needs. It is important to acknowledge that quality of a learning process is not something that is delivered to a learner by an e-learning provider but rather constitutes a process of co-production between the learner and the learning-environment.
That means that the product/ outcome of an educational process is not exclusively a result of the production process of an educational institution. Quality therefore has to do with empowering and enabling the learner. It has to be defined at the final position of the provision of the learning-services: the learner. The article describes learners preferences in e-learning based on empirical results of a large survey in this field. It thus facilitates the construction of learner oriented services portfolios in e-learning.
...This leads to the conclusion that future quality development in e-learning has to be oriented at the learners needs and situation. No longer general criteria or the same guidelines for all learners can be applied but individual learning services are needed that support learners according to their subjective preference profile."
"...In the discussion about the best strategy for e-learning it becomes more an more clear that e-learning has to be based on the learner. This includes the necessity to postulate in a clear way that the needs of the learners have to be determined in a concrete manner before starting the project. Important aspects are therefore the awareness of the learning biography, of individual learning preferences and of social needs. It is important to acknowledge that quality of a learning process is not something that is delivered to a learner by an e-learning provider but rather constitutes a process of co-production between the learner and the learning-environment.
That means that the product/ outcome of an educational process is not exclusively a result of the production process of an educational institution. Quality therefore has to do with empowering and enabling the learner. It has to be defined at the final position of the provision of the learning-services: the learner. The article describes learners preferences in e-learning based on empirical results of a large survey in this field. It thus facilitates the construction of learner oriented services portfolios in e-learning.
...This leads to the conclusion that future quality development in e-learning has to be oriented at the learners needs and situation. No longer general criteria or the same guidelines for all learners can be applied but individual learning services are needed that support learners according to their subjective preference profile."
I have been looking for a long time for a research paper discussing "quality in e-learning from a learners perspective", and at last I have found one, which is certainly useful, relevant, informative, and of quality (Award winning too). Everyone involved in education (lecturers, learners, LMS providers, software developer, etc.) should read the full article (above link). Excellent!
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