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noracarrol - who has written 24 posts on Education Online - Online Degrees, Career Training, Continuing Education News & Articles by IEducationblogs.com.
Bringing the Workplace to Task(s): Integrating Experience into Coursework
Friday, August 7, 2009
jpg: building tomorrow’s workforce policy forum by Corporation for a Skilled Workforce
Continue reading...Getting Personal! Learning Contracts
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Ruth’s contract by ewen and donabel
Continue reading...Getting On Your Case: The Value of Case Studies
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
jpg: case study by juhansonin
Continue reading...Analyze This: Integrated Learning Task Analysis
Monday, August 3, 2009
Adult –focused courses integrate concepts and practice, and as a result the tasks (assignments) are complex, with an ‘applications’ focus. Newcomers to applied learning can be confounded trying to understand the task model, essential before tackling its contents.
Analyzing any learning task begins with reviewing the intended learning goal, which should be quantifiable. The second [...]
Critical Thinking
Friday, July 31, 2009
One of the goals distinguishing higher education is that students learn and demonstrate ‘critical thinking’ skills. What is critical thinking, and why is it important?
Critical thinking is the process of imparting knowledge-based judgment into an analysis, assessment or proposal. The knowledge can be gained through formal or informal means, ranging from traditional research to on-the-job [...]
Inside Knowledge From Outside Experts: The Online Guest Forum
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
Adult students appreciate experience-driven learning opportunities, and one of the most reliable activities is the use of guest experts with topical expertise. Recruiting individuals to appear in a classroom, usually at term’s end, is challenging enough, given budgetary and geographical limitations. Can the process be conducted online instead? Yes!
An online guest forum can bring to [...]
Go Team? Succeeding In The Online Group Project
Monday, July 27, 2009
Both credit-granting and noncredit courses often include group projects. Challenging even in a physical environment, these learning activities can become daunting when there is no face-to-face interaction.
Online group projects typically use a ‘group’ template within off-the-shelf or proprietary instructional software. The template includes an asynchronous discussion board, file for uploading documents and synchronous chat [...]
Higher Ed, Higher Plane: Think Like An Academic
Friday, July 24, 2009
Adults who want to begin or return to formal higher education are sometimes leery about the ability to think in academic terms. Typically, they have impressive workplace (practical) learning on which to draw, but may feel that they fall short when it comes to academic ‘cogitation’.
The change in thinking is not as severe as imagined. Academics use [...]
Been There, Done That: The Experiential Portfolio
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Universities and colleges who serve working adults frequently offer an option that can offset the need to take certain courses: experiential portfolios.
Experiential portfolios are formal documents created by individuals who seek equivalency credit for courses that they normally are required to take and pass. Typically, the applicant will target a subject cluster of courses (ex: [...]
Friday, August 7, 2009
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