...Customized Learning Theory Eric L. Maddox Liberty University According to Slavin (2012), Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences suggests the learning objectives and lessons should be in a variety of ways and he also lists nine intelligences. The educational system has revised the curriculum so teachers are encouraged to use many different teaching strategies within the class to include music, cooperative learning, role play (hands-on), discussion and many other strategies. This paper seeks to focus on incorporating games into the modern classroom and curriculum as a strategy for student learning following the 21st Century learner profile. The paper also examines playing games in classroom and its effects on the students’ communication skills. My customized learning theory involves playing games during a 90 minute learning block, but also using the brain-based strategies suggested by Dr. Marcia Tate in order to keep the class actively engaged. Understanding learning theories are vital to the classroom teacher and also to the student learner. The students in the modern day classrooms are very different from the 1990 to 2002 school students. The modern-day students think their lives revolve around cell-phone usage and technology; however, previously the students were taught lecture style. Many theories have been created to address how students learn and think; therefore, teachers have to be cognizant of the different ways to reach learners. Not every student will...
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...Learning with Technology: A Customized Learning Theory Dallas Ventre Liberty University Throughout history, all learning was achieved by reading books and making observations about the world. However, recent technologies have changed the way people think, act, and even learn. Since the beginning of the 21st century, technology has gone beyond word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. Technology now seems to be the dominating factor in everyone’s life, especially students. It is impossible to visit a shopping mall, restaurant, or even school, without seeing someone with their hands and face glued to a smartphone, but we rarely associate technology with learning. However, there are actually a variety of educational apps that can help students practice their skills in areas such as math and reading. Many changes have occurred in the classroom due to technology, including instruction delivery, submission of assignments, and collaboration between students. Teachers and students alike are now members of online communities that allow them to share information via blogs, wikis, social media posts, and more. Google Drive, Facebook, Twitter, and Glogster are just a few examples of hundreds of interactive websites available on the internet. This paper focuses on recent technological advances and how these developments are helping teachers achieve their goal of leading an effective classroom. Learning Theory and Theory Importance Every successful classroom begins with an...
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...Assignment #4 - Customized Learning Theory B. Wright EDU 501 March 1, 2012 1. Describe your target audience with which you work or expect to work. Before I made the decision to switch careers from corporate America to education, I spent time as a substitute teacher in grades k through twelve. This was an invaluable experience that provided me with the insider’s advantage of the pros and cons of working in every classroom setting from accelerated to special needs, and small group learning to larger class sizes. I have found that I work well in every class room setting. As a substitute teacher, I was one of the most highly requested in my district. Even my superintendent recognized my work and accomplishments in maintaining classroom management and curriculum in the absence of the teacher and regardless of the length of time of the absence. After a year of “subbing”, I was able to identify that high school grade nine through twelve was the age group that I had the greatest success working with. As I mentioned, I was successful at all ages and grades, however, I was able to overcome challenges and barriers that many other high school teacher had difficulty or inability to overcome. Another indicator was listening to the way that teachers speak of their students. Naturally, elementary school teachers cannot cay enough positive things about their students. It is easier to be forgiving with younger children because you understand and expect them to need redirection and reinforcement...
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...restlessness and fatigue In need of physical activity sudden outbursts of activity risky diets causing weight change vulnerable Kids in this stage are exploring their own bodies, which are all growing at different rates. Because they are unsure why they are growing the way they are, they may have sudden outbursts of energy, or solicit themselves to risky health behaviors that could result in unintended consequences. Cognitive - Intellectual different cognitive development rates some moving towards formal operational thinking facing situations that require advancement of cognition wide range of intellectual interests; few need sustaining Prefer active learning and interaction to passive learning and seclusion curious about world and self, not with academic subjects respond positively to opportunities to connect learning to real world develop understanding of current abilities Kids in this stage are exploring their own minds, which are all growing at different rates. Some kids are still only thinking about problems in a concrete fashion. A larger majority of kids are able to think about problems in a formal way, trying to connect the questions being answered to their real life. Research have shown this may be particularly valuable to low-income students to become more engaged with their school environment. Moral Start to think about the greater good instead of how each situation benefits them Starting to see shades of grey instead of only seeing black and white Starting...
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...The learning outcome of this assignment (organizational behavior) is that students will be able to understand the personality traits which are related to organizations, also the type of management style. Moreover I will be giving solutions on what we have to do to develop employees personalities, as well as recommendation to improve performance based on different famous theories in HR. the following are the questions I am about to answer. Question one Explain what type of personality trait is related to the employees working in ABC Company. * Self esteem Respect toward oneself will be influenced Toward individuals' attitudes around themselves, which thus might be formed through manageress or coworker input. To example, as an adult, Jacob needs exceptionally certain respect toward oneself. He puts stock that she may be a valuable, intelligent, keen representative who could handle whatever authoritative circumstances. He created this sure respect toward oneself through a long time for attempting hard, which brought about achievement. He likewise need gained awards done his trade Furthermore sure input from his bosses. Representatives who need helter skelter respect toward oneself (positive) need those Emulating authoritative traits: * Certainty over worth of effort abilities. * Self acknowledgement. * Not influenced Eventually Tom's perusing other individual's perspectives * Idealistic. The individuals for low respect toward oneself will have more level...
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...Mahara Platform First established in mid 2006, the Mahara project started as collaborative venture funded by New Zealand's Tertiary Education Commission's e-learning Collaborative Development Fund (eCDF), involving Massey University, Auckland University of Technology, The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and Victoria University of Wellington. Continued development has been made possible by further support from New Zealand’s Ministry of Education and the application of Mellon Foundation funds from the Open Polytechnic’s winning a 2007 Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. Since July 2007, KineoPacific has worked with CatalystIT to guide the further development of Mahara. A first guiding principle with the development of the Mahara ePortfolio system is that it is learner centred – a form of Personal Learning Environment. This is in contrast to the more institution-centric Learning Management System (LMS). Mahara is a stand-alone system that can be integrated into a wider virtual learning framework. We believe the Learning Management System remains a highly useful application for delivering learning. We also believe the overall environment can be enhanced and complemented by a learner-centred personal learning environment such as Mahara. Pan-institutional learner communities can also be encouraged using Mahara. Mahara’s architecture is inspired by the modular, extensible architecture of Moodle. The Mahara team has also been heavily involved in the Moodle community, with...
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...ability to learn faster than the competition” (Senge 1990:1) Peter M. Senge is a pioneer in the field of learning organizations and the author of “The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization“ (Senge 1990) which was declared as one of the most powerful books in the past 75 years by Harvard Business Review in 1997 (Smith 2001). The book illustrated that the only way to gain competitive advantage is through making an organisation a learning one. However, is the learning organisation approach really linked to an organisation’s competitive advantage and the one and only approach to enhance an organisation’s performance and, therefore, run a successful company? Or is it more like a brilliant theory but not a viable one in practice? By highlighting the main characteristics of a learning organisation and using organisational examples, this essay will critically discuss and analyse its role in terms of enhancing performance. Learning organisations are companies that aim at improving their performance by providing their employees with on-going learning opportunities. As they are utilising learning to achieve their objectives, learning can be seen as part of an organisation’s strategy. They make their employees learn constantly and, therefore, learning must become an essential component of employees’ work (Bratton and Gold 2007) In order to achieve that, learning organisations invest an enormous amount of money in training activities. Jack Welch, the then-CEO of...
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...TOPic: DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS: AN OVERVIEW AND ITS ROLE IN BUSINESS Introduction A decision support system (DSS) is a computer-based information system that supports business or organizational decision-making activities. DSSs serve the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization and help to make decisions, which may be rapidly changing and not easily specified in advance. Typical information that a decision support application might gather and present are: * Inventories of information assets (including legacy and relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, and data marts), * Comparative sales figures between one period and the next, * Projected revenue figures based on product sales assumptions. Making decisions concerning complex systems (e.g., the management of organizational operations, industrial processes, or investment portfolios; the command and control of military units; or the control of nuclear power plants) often strains our cognitive capabilities. Even though individual interactions among a system's variables may be well understood, predicting how the system will react to an external manipulation such as a policy decision is often difficult. What will be, for example, the effect of introducing the third shift on a factory floor? One might expect that this will increase the plant's output by roughly 50 percent. Factors such as additional wages, machine weardown, maintenance breaks, raw material usage, supply logistics, and...
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...| Leadership Development at Goldman Sachs | | Problem Statement How to develop an effective senior leadership development plan at Goldman Sachs to cultivate a culture that complements the existing team culture? | Process | EA Factor (Political, Economic, legal etc.) | Implications on the problem | PoliticalEuropean acquisition of US firms | * This put pressure on the American firms. * Created the “War For Talent” | Economic * Surge in the financial sector. * Many companies were going public. * There was an increase in the acquisitions in the financial services industry. * Lucrative overseas market. * IPO markets were growing, generating continuous revenues. | * Change in the financial sector, changed the way organisations functioned. * Opportunities and resources became global in scope. * Expansion forced institutions to expand their workforce. * The increased workforce called for more capable leaders throughout the organisation. * New industries and upcoming companies presented attractive opportunities for key employees from traditional companies like Goldman Sachs. This placed stress on the employee retention ability of these older companies. * Companies like Goldman Sachs hence had to look deeper into the adequacy of their training and development programmes. | SocialNot Relevant | | Technological * Dot Com Boom * Emergence of new media, telecommunication & technology industry. | Development of technology enabled the...
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...Defining the Learning Environment Sheneka N. Revis Dr. Patricia Engelman EDU 500 Adult Learning Theory May 4, 2014 As operating manager over Open Season University’s Instructors, I was assigned the task of conducting a certification class for all active Instructors next month. This is a voluntary training that can offer each Instructor higher pay upon completion. Open Season University is located in the mountain area of Asheville, North Carolina. Our institution is an enrichment program that will assist individuals in achieving success. We believe it is imperative to operate as the driving force that encourages students to strive for excellence while instilling within them the desire to become life-long learners. Our primary purpose is to motivate our students to establish a love of learning in order to walk confidently into learning on their own. Open Season University’s educational platform is unlike any other. As an alternative to inertly obtaining lessons from teachers or tutors, Open University’s students keenly cultivate self-learning capabilities. Each student progresses at their own pace through a customized package of worksheets judiciously arranged by the instructor. Daily coursework is completed for each subject at the university and the remainder is completed at home. Once a student is able to complete coursework without error, an assignment is considered complete. This method of educating allows a student to “possess” what they know and enter the next...
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...Customized Learning Theory: Reflective-Constructivism Kylie-Anne Noreiga Liberty University EDUC 500: Advanced Educational Psychology Dr. Gary Smith October 8, 2014 Introduction An elementary school first grade classroom teacher has spent the last four months teaching his students concepts of basic addition and subtraction. Students continue to show progress in understanding of both addition and subtraction skills through direct instruction, guided practice, homework practice worksheets, and in-class assessments, both informal and formal. During in class station activities as an alternative to outdoor recess, Mr. Duncan pulls out several games/activities and a timer; students will rotate through game stations every 10 minutes to allow students to experience various stations. Two of the activity stations involve math games such as Monopoly Junior and Candy Land. As students delve into their activity stations, Mr. Duncan observers his students unknowingly performing algorithms, maybe without a true understanding of why they are doing so yet, but still – applying learned skills correctly to real-world activities. Later that same school year, students in Mrs. Robinson’s second grade class are reviewing the value of money. Zayne’s father gives him $1 for each chore completed during the week. Within a few weeks, Zayne earns and saves $30 dollars and decides to spend his money on a Snakeez, a portable cup with a lid that...
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...customers want to specific engineering and operational requirements “house of quality”product development process & consumer –concept dev. Planning, design and dev, commercial preparation, launch development funnel, sequential, concurrent – a process in which the product or service idea must clear specific hurdles before it can go on to the next dev phase.design development phase – 3rd phase here the company starts to invest heavily in the development effort and builds and evaluates prototypes line balancing – technique used in developing product-based layouts, as would be found in a production line or group technology produced in large enough volumes to justify keeping a finished goods inventory. assemble to order – products that are customized only at the very end...
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...(2009). Managerial economics (6th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. Course Learning Objectives Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Discuss managerial economics and its relationship to microeconomics and other related fields of study such as finance, marketing, and statistics. 2. Decide economic goals for the firm and develop optimal decisions that will bring the firm closest to those goals. 3. Define supply, demand, and equilibrium price. 4. Apply the concepts of price elasticity, cross-elasticity, and income elasticity. 5. Specify the components of a regression model that can be used to estimate a demand equation. 6. Define production function, and explain the difference between a short-run and a long-run production function. 7. Distinguish between economic cost and accounting cost. 8. Describe the key characteristics of the four basic market types used in economic analysis. 9. Cite the main differences between monopolistic competition and oligopoly. 10. Analyze the practice of cartel pricing. 11. Illustrate game theory, and explain how it helps better understand mutually interdependent management decisions. 12. Define the cost of capital, and demonstrate how it is calculated. Credits Upon completion of this course, the students will earn three (3) hours of college credit. Course Structure 1. Unit Learning Objectives: Each unit contains Unit Learning Objectives that specify the measurable skills and knowledge students should gain upon...
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...Knowledge Integration Exam Issue 1 – Ethics and Legal Environment In the corporate environment, there are usually codes of conduct or rules and policies that all employees must follow. Non conformity to what is required usually results in disciplinary actions or termination. At times there are situations when an employee does something that is not right but cannot be views as wrong. There situations are usually ethical dilemmas and finding the right course of action is not an easy process. An example of a situation like is that of Alison Costello who is a Senior Vice President at AlphaSoft Corporation. Alison worked her way up from an Assistant Project Facilitator to her current position in ten year. She is well respected and has received good to outstanding performance evaluations throughout her career at AlphaSoft. Sam Snarkley, another employee at AlphaSoft who was disappointed about not getting the promotion that Alison received found out at a social gathering that Alison did not complete her MBA degree due to family reasons. The issue here is that Alison noted on her resume when she applied to AlphaSoft that she did have her MBA. The MBA was not a requirement for the position the Assistant Project Facilitator position that Alison held when she first started but it is a requirement for the Senior Vice President position. Sam informed the human resources department about his findings. Human resources requested that Alison provide them with a copy of her official transcripts...
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...hybrids, crossovers, SUVs, trucks, and minivans. The automobile company own 7 models of cars including the Yaris which is the cheapest of the range. The Toyota Yaris was first created in 1999 in Japan, and then another one was produced in 2001 in France for the European market. 1. Evaluate Toyota’s positionning approach for Yaris and discuss the learning theories that would you use to teach your target market about the new Yaris. According to the given case study, Toyota has targeted the young market for its Yaris, but statistics show that in the average the UK consumers who buy the car are around 60 years old. Young people do not like the fact that it does not have a sporty look. Young consumers like fancy and fast cars. The Yaris mostly represents a simple type of car. In order to avoid that situation, Toyota should have evaluated the features of the Yaris before choosing a specific target market. Since the product is successful in Europe for the older Page 2 Consumers, maybe they ought to focus on that market to enhance their sales and offer more to the particular market. Nevertheless, Toyota can use some learning techniques to teach its target marquet about the new Yaris. The...
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