Author: Jane C. MertesdorfPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Learning Styles and Barriers to Learning Perceived by Adult Students on Campus
Author: Jane C. MertesdorfThe Relationship Between Learning Styles, Perceived Barriers, and Completion of an Extended Degree Program
Author: Arlys O. GraffBarriers to Education as Perceived by Adult Students and Administrators in Minnesota Community Colleges and Technical Colleges
Author: Mark L. LarsonThe University and its Disciplines
Author: Carolin KreberPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113589034X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
University teaching and learning take place within ever more specialized disciplinary settings, each characterized by its unique traditions, concepts, practices and procedures. It is now widely recognized that support for teaching and learning needs to take this discipline-specificity into account. However, in a world characterized by rapid change, complexity and uncertainty, problems do not present themselves as distinct subjects but increasingly within trans-disciplinary contexts calling for graduate outcomes that go beyond specialized knowledge and skills. This ground-breaking book highlights the important interplay between context-specific and context-transcendent aspects of teaching, learning and assessment. It explores critical questions, such as: What are the ‘ways of thinking and practicing’ characteristic of particular disciplines? How can students be supported in becoming participants of particular disciplinary discourse communities? Can the diversity in teaching, learning and assessment practices that we observe across departments be attributed exclusively to disciplinary structure? To what extent do the disciplines prepare students for the complexities and uncertainties that characterize their later professional, civic and personal lives? Written for university teachers, educational developers as well as new and experienced researchers of Higher Education, this highly-anticipated first edition offers innovative perspectives from leading Canadian, US and UK scholars on how academic learning within particular disciplines can help students acquire the skills, abilities and dispositions they need to succeed academically and also post graduation. Carolin Kreber is Professor of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and the Director of the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Assessment at the University of Edinburgh
The Importance of Learning Styles
Author: Ronald R. SimsPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313005893
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book provides a timely review of learning style research. It examines those approaches that purport to promote effective learning. It affirms the need for instructors and trainers to recognize the importance of individual learning differences and to use methods that help create a learning climate which increases the potential learning for all students or trainees regardless of their preferred way of learning. The ability to understand and to teach to the various learning styles of students is essential to improving the effectiveness of college-level education. In this book, Sims and Sims bring together significant research to aid academics and organizational trainers in understanding and applying learning style research and knowledge to program, course, and class development.
Adult Learners On Campus
Author: H.B. SlotnickPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113572220X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The opportunity for a "second chance" is a growing phenomenon. Some members of the Adult Learners Consulting Group, a dozen or so faculty and graduate students at the University of Dakota, who have a general interest in the related processes of learning and teaching, investigated the specific concern about the ways older-than-average students learn and the instructional methods most appropriate for them. They recognized that for both the older student and the teacher of the older student there are problems and issues that are different from the average student or student/teacher relationship. In addition to presenting an integrated picture of adult learners on campus, this book also provides some teaching techniques that can be used in the classroom tomorrow.; It is aimed at teachers in further and adult education, trainers in all disciplines, researchers in adult and continuing education.
Insider's Guide for Adult Learners
Author: Christine CrowePublisher: Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN: 1319216560
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Adult learners have unique challenges, but also bring important strengths to the classroom. Insider’s Guide for Adult Learners is a practical guide to facing those challenges and making the most of those strengths. It includes key coverage of important topics such as financial and academic planning, time management, and maintaining motivation for your successful transition back to the classroom. The Insider’s Guide Series Short, smart, and student-friendly, these guides reveal all the insider secrets to a successful college experience. Covering topics such as academic planning, beating test anxiety, responsible credit card use, and many more, they make perfect supplements to your textbook and course work.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Relationship Between Multiple Adult Roles, Barriers to Learning, and Persistence/withdrawal for Returning Adult Students
Author: Daniele D. FlanneryPerception of Learning and Learning Style
Author: Constance Jean MoonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Continuing education
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description