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At the very heart of the feeling of personal effectiveness

KnowledgeOne

The basis of social-cognitive theory. This notion is at the heart of his social-cognitive theory, which explains human development and functioning through continuous and reciprocal interactions between personal, behavioural and environmental (or contextual) factors. ” Related articles: The importance of emotions in learning.

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Metalearning and Learning Styles

Big Dog, Little Dog

However, since most educational and training activities normally teach learners what to learn, rather than how to learn, this is one task that does not come easily for some learners. Note that the two papers do NOT disprove learning styles as scientific studies can normally only prove what exists, not what does not exist.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Go Read a Book

Learning Visions

Reading brains work differently from listening ones. The Benefits of Reading As we learn to read fluently, our minds our freed up. It makes you smarter because it leaves more of your brain alone. Its all in how you ask the question. The numbers were down at 46.7% Add this to your reading list for 2008. How you read.

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Whole-Task Practice, Visuals, ID, Training, Blogs, & Poverty

Big Dog, Little Dog

Instead, our designers' tactics suggest they view design as an "ill-structured problem" (Jonassen, 2002; Schön, 1987) or "wicked problem" (Becker, 2007) with many possible solutions, which they pursue with a large repertoire of social and cognitive skills. And I see 3 "contexts" for Learning/ Training: Enterprise Learning.

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Top 70 eLearning Posts for June and Hot Topics including iPad and Mobile Learning

eLearning Learning Posts

Real learning – let’s not confuse it with completing templated exercises - Performance Learning Productivity , June 18, 2010 I read a piece written by Kate Graham of e2train on Thursday and it started me thinking about the ‘real learning versus managed learning’ debate. But is it safe to rely on peer-to-peer learning?

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Informal Learning – the other 80%

Jay Cross

The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. I’ll be leading a series of master classes on informal learning and working smarter in Europe. Informal Learning – the other 80%. Because organizations are oblivious to informal learning, they fail to invest in it.