...or in a traditional classroom setting. There are very few differences between the two, and students need to understand that as much time and energy will need to be devoted to the online courses as on a campus. “A 2010 meta-analysis and review of online-learning studies concluded that online learning was as good as or slightly more effective than traditional face-to-face instruction” (Mendenhall, 2011). Therefore, there is no question as to whether or not success can be obtained from this nontraditional way of learning. Nevertheless, students who chose to study online should be extremely disciplined. There are many tools that one needs to be successful in school and in every aspect of their life. Of course, some people need different things from others. However, I will point out a few that I feel are very important, and that I will use in my daily life. As an online learner and an administrative assistant, I have found that you should be equipped with great organizational, time management and communication skills in a quest for success. Some people have excellent organization skills, whereas others may struggle with getting organized. It is important that you establish effective organization techniques early on to ensure success in any endeavors. I feel as though having these skills is the foundation for achievement. Having organization skills allows you to arrange information in such a way that it can be used more effectively. “Developing good organizational skills and time...
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...right into taking classes with out learning how to be successful in the class. People become overwhelmed and many times failing their courses. In the article “Ten Simple Rules for Online Learning”, written by David B. Searls, explains how to be a successful online student. This article covers many different important aspects on how to be a successful online learner. Some of the main points that Mr. Searls covers are quite simple and fairly common to all types of students. Others are more directly representative of online students. For instance, rule number two is to be selective. Residential students must be selective when choosing a school to attend, but online learners have to be extremely more selective while choosing an online school to attend. Online students need to be more selective because the type of online instruction is not the same as a traditional on campus instruction. Other rules that pertain more so to online learners are rules four, five, and six. These rules cover doing the readings, exercises, and assessments. All of these are need to be implemented more by online learners because they are more responsible for their own education. A residential student has the opportunity to experience first hand the subject taught to them compared to an online learner who does not experience face-to-face classes. After reading this article I discovered many ways in which I can improve my online learning experience. I am new to online learning, so this has opened my eyes to how...
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...in being successful or not, lies in the idea of what successful means to you. Success as described by Merriam Webster’s is “gaining or having gained success”. Merriam Webster, (n.d.) With that we need to know what success is in your eyes. Success can be two different ends of the spectrum from being a millionaire to being debt free. It could be as simple as having a job you enjoy, a loving family and living the American Dream. As you read on I want you to understand my passion for being successful, successful at home, successful at work and with both of those tackled; successful in life. To be successful at home starts the foundation of a successful life. Being that positive role model for my son. Being the loving husband for my wife. Doing all the little things that need to get done to have a happy home. Even the mundane day-to-day things like mowing the yard, taking out the trash and cleaning the cat box. In order to be a success at home I have to ensure I take the advice of a famous poet, philosopher and author, Ralph Waldo Emerson; He said, “The future belongs to those who prepare for it”. Great-Quotes (n.d.) I heard this quote in high school, and it got me to thinking, to have a positive future you have to prepare. That one simple thought, those few words, have compelled me to have a plan for my success. It was almost and epiphany. I started at that point to plan on how to be a success. The first step would be to get a career. The plan started out with a clear...
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...Running head: STUDENT SUCCESS WITH ONLINE LEARNING 1 WK4Assgnmconteh Student Success with Online Learning Miniratu Conteh Walden University Nurs 6001 Foundations of Graduate Studies November 3, 2013 STUDENT SUCCESS WITH ONLINE LEARNING 2 This article is on a research about the effect of internet-based application on student success in teaching of eighth grade triangles subject which is included in eighth grade units and algebra. A computer program called Vitamin program was used to carry out the study. The experiment group comprised of eighteen, eight grade students and the control group comprised of nineteen, eight grade students. Internet-based teaching materials were used on the experiment group and conventional teaching method materials on the control group. With internet/online education benefits like flexibility, oriented results and small classroom is noted, whilst with conventional education, benefits like classroom face to face with the teacher, source of information from teacher and structure is noted. The research was performed to determine whether the learning levels of eighth grade students using the Vitamin Program is as good as the conventional method. The audience target in this article are students, faculties and department of education. Both groups were looked at closely in terms of the approach, experience, effects and benefits of the teaching methods used. The Vitamin Program used to carry out the study on the experiment group, is...
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...Learning Style: The Key to Success Desiree Little Grand Canyon University: NRS-429V March 3, 2014 Learning Style: The Key to Success What if one could find out his or hers way of learning? It’s possible by taking the VARK® (2011) assessment. Knowing ones learning style can help learners understand the presented information in a way that is easier for them. VARK is an acronym for visual, aural, read/write, and kinesthetic (VARK®, 2011). Knowing ones learning style can be the key to a successful learning experience. Read/Write The read/write learning style means that he or she prefers to learn by reading directions or material and by writing things down, such as note-taking. In my case, this is the style that the VARK® assessment identified me as. Read/write learners enjoy reading, often take excessive and verbatim notes, work best in quiet areas, prefer to work alone, won’t hesitate to look up a word in a dictionary, and love articulate teachers who put a lot of information into sentences and notes (The Study Gurus, 2013). The read/write learner is fairly common and may be missed as they’ll be in a corner writing notes! Preferred Learning Strategies Preferred learning strategies are ways that a learner likes their information presented to them. My preferred learning strategies are the following: * * Reading handouts * Reviewing lists * Taking notes * Re-writing notes * Listening to lecture * Using tape recorder The above strategies...
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...There is this popular saying: “Kids say the darnedest things.” And it is so true! But not only do they SAY the “darnedest” things. They also DO the “darnedest” things. As the mother of a four-year-old little girl, I know from experience. But where do kids learn the things they say or do? They learn it from watching and listening, or “observing.” Children are like little sponges. They observe everything around them, soak it all in, and imitate the words and actions they see and hear, both positive and negative. Because of this, it is my belief from personal experience that the style most appropriate and fitting to teaching children is observational learning. One of the most important factors of observational learning is whether the desired behavior is rewarded or not. The observation of punishment isn’t a guarantee that negative behavior won’t be learned or repeated. However, the chances of repeated desirable behavior increase if a child observes a reward. It is pretty simple to teach a child to clean his or her room with this approach. Although it may take a few times for the concept to sink in, it’s very basic: clean your (referring to the child) room and you will get to go to the park (or color, or watch television, whichever you want the reward to be). There are few things to do before you start. First, you need to consider a schedule for reinforcement. Do you want to reward your child every time he cleans his room with a continuous reinforcement schedule, or every once...
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...In today’s society, we live in a world that is ever changing with constant advancements in technology; one, for example, which is online schooling. This is a convenient, yet challenging advancement in today’s society. In order for one to attain success in the online learning environment one must be disciplined, organized, computer savvy, and determined for success; Above all else, time management is key. An article retrieved from the University of Oregon (2009), Points out a couple of key factors to consider that can contribute to successful time management, in which they state, “It is important to note that time management is a personal skill; only you know your peak work hours, your attention span and your eating and sleeping needs, which must be planned for. Finding a time management strategy that best fits your needs is important” (University of Oregon, 2009). A couple of barriers that may cause one to become unsuccessful in the online learning environment could be computer/internet malfunction, ones work schedule, family issues, procrastination, or unexpected events. “An effective mechanism for decreasing the likelihood of procrastination is effective time management. One of the biggest obstacles to effective time management is underestimating the amount of time needed to meet graduate-course expectations” (Chamberlain, 2015). Procrastination is a silent killer. In regards to family issue, which can also be an unexpected event, one must use copping mechanisms, just...
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...Class Size Affect Learning Success? Rosemarie Antonelli AIU Online December 6th, 2014 Abstract While it is hard to find experts that are inclined to side against smaller class sizes, there are plenty of people who wonder the effectiveness of the school programs currently in place. In the state of Florida, classes were reduced to see the effectiveness it had on the students and their academics. After the classroom sizes were reduced, there was no significant benefits shown statistically for students of these school districts throughout a number of areas. The academic areas that were looked at were exam scores, attendance, and violence within the schools. California also made efforts to lower class sizes and they also did not succeed in making any connections to gains in achievement to class size. It is very important to realize that improving the quality of the teachers is far more beneficial than decreasing the size of the classroom. When thought is really put into students learning abilities, a great teacher with forty students will have a much higher success rate than a very poor teacher that educates fifteen students. Does Class Size Affect Learning Success? When talking about class sizes and how it affects students learning outcomes, there are many things that should be considered. This is a subject that is not a one size fits all situation. Teachers, students, and the classroom environment all play a role when it comes to learning and a student’s success. Although many...
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...Student Success in Online K-12 Education A Literature Review The education/school system has seen a tremendous growth in online learning programs, defined as learning experiences in which students and instructors are separated by space and/or time. The development of online distance learning school is a relatively new wave. Online schools have become ideally suited to meet the needs of government officials, politicians, calling for school choice, high school reform and preparation for the 21st century workforce. The growing numbers of students learning online and the importance of online learning as a solution to educational differences has increased the demand to study more closely the factors that effect learning in a virtual school environment. Many students who have participated and who participate in online education programs are attracted to online schooling because it offers advantages over a classroom based program. The benefits of distance (online) education for youth are increasing in enrollment is because these educational programs are reaching undeserved regions and districts, broadening educational opportunity for students who are unable to attend a traditional setting, are not accessible to resources and the teachers are not available locally which creates a better student teacher communication. Students in virtual schools showed greater improvement that their conventional school counterparts in critical thinking, researching, using computers...
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...496 Critical Success Factors for E-Learning Adoption Spiros Borotis Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Panagiotis Zaharias Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Angeliki Poulymenakou Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Chapter XXXV ABSTRACT E-learning attracts considerable interest in contemporary corporate training curricula. As it concerns a considerable investment, organizations that tend to adopt and maintain it effectively and efficiently in the long term need to learn from the pioneers. Authors’ experience and extensive literature review lead to 11 critical success factors, which promise to increase the awareness towards the most common impediments. Those critical success factors include the alignment with business objectives; leadership; empowerment of the learning aspect; technological infrastructure; blended instruction; careful design; evaluation and feedback; time and space to learn; motivation to learn; usability; and complete knowledge of learners’ characteristics. Copyright © 2008, Idea Group Inc., distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI is prohibited. Critical Success Factors for E-Learning Adoption INTRODUCTION E-learning is increasingly recognized as an important mean in delivering effective and relevant training in the workplace. This new training delivery mode exploits the power of Web networking and capitalizes on corporate technology infrastructures...
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... Critical Success Factors for Online Distance Learning in Higher Education: A Review of the Literature Bussakorn Cheawjindakarn1, Praweenya Suwannatthachote2, Anuchai Theeraroungchaisri3 1 Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand Email: bussakornonline@gmail.com, praweenya@gmail.com, anuchai@gmail.com 2 Received 2012 The aim of this paper is to specify the Critical Success Factors (CSFs) for Online Distance Learning (ODL) in Higher Education (HE). Research methodology was analyzing and synthesizing the literature review. The literatures were reviewed to determine items relevant to online learning success as implementation, criteria and indicator. A total of 19 papers, published during 2000-2012, were selected from Chulalongkorn University reference databases. Data analysis method was using one of the popular analysis techniques for qualitative research works or the content analysis. The results on the CSFs for ODL can be grouped into 5 factors: 1) institutional management, 2) learning environment, 3) instructional design, 4) services support and 5) course evaluation. Each of these 5 factors includes several important elements that can assist to enhance efficiency of online learning courses in higher education institutions. It is a concrete approach to lead functions of an online institute or course in all levels to the same directions for achieving the success of the institute‘s...
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...uk/dialogue_nw/index.htm Success is the Journey not the Destination Introduction Please note: this PDF version does not contain the many links to websites and documents that are available on the website version. This is available at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/dialogue_nw/events/success/index.htm This short booklet is an edited collection of the ideas and resources which were presented at the Dialogue NW event at Blackpool College in October 2009 called Success: Never Standing Still. We hope that those who attended will be able to use the resources and activities themselves and that it will be stimulating as well as useful for those who were unable to attend. As with all of Dialogue NW activities this event was more than a training session telling people how to do it – instead we wanted to provide a space for critical discussion and reflection. Our focus was on the learners and what success meant to them, acknowledging that this may be very different to official concerns and discourses around recruitment, retention and achievement. If we start from the learner, then success is more about the journey than crossing an imaginary finishing line: it is about the hurdles, the timing and in some cases the stamina to finish what might feel like a gruelling race. It also allows us to appreciate that the journey is not always straightforward and it is often easier when travelling with others. It is much more than the bullet point statements often used to describe or monitor success. We started the day...
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..._________________________________ Abstract The study investigates the attributions of English language learning of 125 Thai undergraduate students in the last year of their study in International Business Management and Hotel Management at a university in Thailand. According to the programme requirement, these students have to study at least five selective English courses after passing the three compulsory foundation English courses. In response to the closed and open-ended questionnaire, 32 students perceived themselves as failures in English language learning and usage though obtaining highly satisfactory grades in English. 20 students were then selected for the interview in order to further explore reasons they rendered as failed learners and their views on how to become better language learners and on the benefits of learning English. Qualitative in nature, an interpretive approach is employed, taking into account the subjective meaning which the participants convey. Research findings indicate that there are various grounds why the students discern themselves as unsuccessful English learners. Implications are drawn regarding English learning and teaching as well as learners’ achievement, and for the development of the curriculum in the particular context investigated. Introduction and Contextual Background Due to the rapid growth and competitive nature of international business in Thailand, English learning becomes more important for undergraduate students aiming to work in the business area...
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...GLA Factors affecting SLA success Topic 4: Factors affecting L2 learning Conceptual objective: the students will be able to enumerate those factors connected to L2 learning success Procedural objective: the students will explore those factors that have promoted their success as language learners, making a chart and comparing it with other people Attitudinal objective: the students will develop a critical attitude towards the causal correlations between factors and learning success Attitudinal objective: the students will realize the need for further research A. Internal/ Individual B. External a. 1. Age 2. Aptitude 3. Motivation and Attitude 4. Personality 5. Cognitive Style 6. Hemisphere specialisation 7. Learning Strategies 1. Learning and Teaching Contexts 2.Teaching a second language: Effects 2.1. Input and interaction: How these elements affect learning A.1. AGE AND L2 LEARNING • Effects of age on RATE of second language learning ΚAdults are superior to children in rate of acquisition ΚOlder children learn more rapidly than younger children ΚWith regards to morphology and syntax, the adolescents do best, followed by the adults and then the children ΚGrammar differences diminish over time, and children begin to catch up, but adults outperform children in the short term Κ Where pronunciation is concerned, adults do not always progress more rapidly than children do Thus: adults learn faster than children, and this is more applicable to grammar than pronunciation, although...
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...Family Center Health Promotion Learning Styles Michael Lane Grand Canyon University Learning Styles There are many different learning styles that one may use to understand and retain what they may have learned. Visual, aural, read/write, kinesthetic and multimodal are the different learning styles people use in everyday education. Everyone has a style of learning and up to 60% of people use more than one technique. There are different tricks for each style that if you learn the tricks it can make you more successful in everyday learning. The author of this paper took the sixteen question VARK questionnaire. This questionnaire evaluates what type of learning style you have and then gives you tips and guidance in how to be successful. The learning style that the questionnaire said the author was is multimodal. Multimodal means that one person uses all the learning styles. The author uses visual, aural, read/write and kinesthetic in everyday learning activities. “So multiple preferences give you choices of two or three or four modes to use for your learning and for your interaction with others” (Fleming, 2011). The VARK questionnaire appears to be accurate in this case. The author loves all types of learning especially when an instructor uses all styles in any given class together because it makes learning that subject very easy to learn, digest and retain. “In fact, the retention of learned material is enhanced if the learner is asked to process information using more...
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