Learning Leadership in Web-based Education
What role should a 'learning leader' play in web-based learning environment?Learning Leadership in Web-Based Education
Timeless Lifeskills Foundation
Learning Theories – Overview and Synthesis (#MSLFM11)
What is a Learning Theory?How do humans construct meaning and what motivates us to learn is what learning theories postulate. As our understanding of ourselves changes, be it because of advances in neural science, psychology, sociology, or changes in the environment like availability of abundant information or threat to our very survival, our view of ‘why’ and ‘how’ of learning also changes, leading to new learning theories being postulated.Why is it important to understand Learning…
Learning Experience and Cognitive Processing Theory
The following graphic sums-up how knowledge of cognitive processing theory can help us gain deeper understanding. The graphic is based on learning framework suggested by Howard Gardner.A topic or discipline should be introduced from multiple perspectives, with different analogies and diverse representations because learners have different types of intelligences (Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory). Assessment too should be based on different types of performance opportunities to facilitate different intelligences. Following are some thoughts based on cognitive…
Thoughts on Thought Leadership in Education
My thoughts on 'Thought Leadership’, especially in the context of education. Leadership is about influencing others and in the case of Thought Leadership in Education, I believe, it is about influencing others with your ideas of constitutes good education. This thinking has direct bearing on me because I am keen on influencing others about how the information technology revolution has placed us in the midst of a paradigm shift, just like advent of language, writing…
NextGen Learning Platform (#MSLFM11)
The NextGen Learning Platforms should facilitate - Curation, Contextualization, Collective Wisdom, Conversations and Personalization. Ideally the platform should have these features built-in, but there are always new third-party tools coming up that perform these functions better. Hence, either the platform should have the capability to integrate new third-party tools. Even without a learning platform that provides these features, learner can use use tools like Diigo and features like ‘hashtag’ collation and sharing to bring coherence…
A Learning Framework for the Digital Age
Web-based learning is emerging as the second strand of education, where the teacher or parent becomes a learner facilitator, the web becomes the classroom and the learner becomes increasingly autonomous. Borrowing from different learning theories this presentation suggests a learning framework for the digital age. A Learning Framework for the Digital Age