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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"personal learning"”.
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Context-aware Personal Learning Environment
Research is now shifting away from Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) and towards the use of the Personal Learning Environment (PLE). A review of a number of PLE architectures are presented in the literature, and while they convey well the concept of a PLE, nevertheless they could best be …
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Personal Learning Environments For Business Organizations
… to examine how they created and used personal learning environments (PLEs), what internet/Web 2.0 technologies were used to solve work-related problems (or for professional development), and what strategies were engaged to meet learning goals. Research questions addressed: what …
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Investigating Personal Learning in an Ecotourism Setting
… aimed to understand visitors' perceptions of personal impacts, including personal learning, in an ecotourism setting and why these impacts differed between visitors. To fully comprehend the nature of personal impacts, I took a primarily qualitative approach, using participant observation and a …
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A Hermeneutic Phenomenological Study of School Administrators’ Participation in Personal Learning Networks and Privacy Issues
… social networking tools to participate in personal learning networks (PLN) while managing privacy. As school administrators digitally collaborate with PLN colleagues, they must construct an online identity and develop and cultivate relationships. Additionally, to engage in a PLN one must …
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A Formative Evaluation of Personal Learning Networks for Professional Development in the Architecture + Design Industry
This research is a formative evaluation of personal learning networks to determine their applicability for professional development in the architecture and design industry. The researcher seeks to find a catalyst toward discipline-wide realization of integrated design practices. This research …
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Trainees' perceptions of personal learning experiences and training program characteristics that helped them to learn : an exploratory study
… was to identify formal training and informal learning experiences that were judged as valuable as the learners began the on-the-job utilization of their formal training and/or informal learning activities. Three adult education learning theories (andragogy, proficiency theory, and situated …
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Conversational uses of the repertory grid for personal learning and the management of change in special educational needs
… the repertory grid as a framework for Learning Conversations, is used to examine the management of change for a group of teachers and their schools. The study sets out to analyse how individual, teachers, from twelve primary and middle schools, in three outer London boroughs, learnt …
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A Comparative Analysis of Training, Mentoring and Coaching in the Sales Environment: Evaluating the Impact of Personal Learning on Role Ambiguity and Organizational Commitment
… for organizational leaders becomes identifying learning strategies to encourage salespeople to apply what they learn. Researchers have advanced multiple studies on the learning needs of salespeople, yet there is not a consensus as to the most effective mechanisms to increase learning transfer in …
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EVALUATING DIFFERENCES IN TEST ACHIEVEMENT OF MEDICAL DOSIMETRY STUDENTS PARTICIPATING IN INSTRUCTION WITH SYNCHRONOUS VERSUS ASYNCHRONOUS VIDEO CONSIDERING PERSONAL LEARNING STYLE AND BLOOM'S TAXONOMY LEVEL
… of this study was to determine the dominant learning style of dosimetry students. The study also investigated to see if there was a significant difference in test performance based on synchronous/asynchronous participation, specific learning style, and the Bloom's taxonomy level of the test …
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An Investigation of Factors Associated With the Academic Success, Persistence, and Satisfaction of Community College Students With Learning Disabilities
… three categories (e.g., transition activities, personal learning characteristics, and academic supports) to their academic success. Statistical analyses showed that there were so significant differences between the groups on any of the dependent variables. Descriptive analyses revealed that …
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O twitter em contexto académico/profissional : estudo de caso
… usam o Twitter integrado dentro do seu PLE (Personal Learning Environment) em contexto académico/profissional, e por outro, de que modo poderão alterar os seus comportamentos e práticas, depois de passarem por um processo de aprendizagem formal da ferramenta. Uma das principais …
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Technology and Educational Change: Making the Links
This study investigated teachers' professional learning and pedagogy as they grappled with the challenges and implications of using new information and communications technologies (ICT) in their classrooms. It contributes to knowledge about the way teachers learn and change, their pedagogical …
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Agency and Community: Supporting Creative Learning in a Global Online Course
Learning Creative Learning (LCL) is an online course and global educator community which has engaged thousands of people interested in exploring creative learning approaches through projects, passion, peers, and play. LCL has been designed in pursuit of learner agency and global community — that …
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The role of developmental experience in the career development of fire chiefs in the United States
… experience has emerged as an experiential learning strategy that improves a leader's ability to adapt to and positively influence organizational success under conditions of change. The literature indicates that positive changes in leadership and management behaviors derived from …
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Straddling the nonformal and formal education paradigm: a qualitative study of transformative learning within an Islamic Teacher Education Programme presented in the Western Cape from 2012 to 2014
… of the transformative effect of a nonformal learning programme for Muslim education practitioners - the Islamic Teacher Education Programme (ITEP) in the Western Cape, within the context of lifelong learning. It investigates the effect on participants' personal teaching practice and whether …
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An Ethnographic Study of the Learning Needs, Strategies, and Networks of African American Adults Age 65 and Over in Rural Texas
This study revealed that rural older Blacks have personal learning and related information needs. The study involved the process of researching the learning initiatives of 14 African American adults who were age 65 and over and residents in rural Texas communities. The study participants provided …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
… hypothesized that experiential processing (via personal learning) would alter perceptions of confessions. In Study 1, participants read vignettes whereby minimization led to a confession, and provided perceptions of the confession. Veracity of the confession was manipulated. Learning that a …
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Enhancing ESL Instruction Through Reflective Teaching: A Resource Guide for Administrators of Intensive English Programs
… stimulating reflective inquiry, which promotes personal learning, behavior modification, and better performance. Furthermore, these practices help teachers identify classroom strengths and weaknesses, giving them an overall idea of their teaching competency. They also encourage teacher …
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Student Voice Initiative: Exploring Implementation Strategies
… to work collaboratively with adults to produce a learning culture that is conducive for optimum growth in every student. In a traditional setting, the adults make the decisions and the students are passive observers in the learning process. Data has shown that this traditional culture is not …
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ESL teacher education in British Columbia : experienced teachers' perceptions and preferences
… were preferred in light of past training or personal learning styles. A 92-item questionnaire based on one used by Richards and Hino (1983) was distributed to 412 teachers, members of an ESL teacher association. The response rate was 32.76%. The results of a descriptive statistical analysis …
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