scholarly journals Yes! I Want My Non-Cognitive Skills to Be Improved: Perceptions on an ICT-Enabled Learning Journey

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (22) ◽  
pp. 42-58
Author(s):  
Maria Petritsopoulou ◽  
Thashmee Karunaratne ◽  
Myrsini Glinos
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Related Literature ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Learning Journey ◽  
User Centric ◽  
Exploratory Strategy

Non-cognitive skills (NCS) are important for personal development and enhancing employability. However, as related literature points out, designs for NCS development are challenged by their fidelity, complexity, technology pedagogy and content value, user-centricity and so forth. Thus, this study investigates on 1) how do individuals recognise their needs, challenges and motivations for improving NCS, and 2) how do they envision their individual roadmap towards NCS achievement. An exploratory strategy is followed in capturing the learners’ perceptions. Expected data were collected by a questionnaire aiming at a sample of 80 purposely selected employable adults, followed by interviews with 11 randomly selected individuals among the sample. The outcomes provided feedback towards optimising design concepts for an NCS learning environment. Consequently, the framework for NCS improvement must include components, in the order of importance, tools for assessment of NCS, premises for learning NCS, dynamic CV, and linking to the occupations of individual interests as envisioned by the respondents. The participants recognised the significance of NCS and that NCS contribute meaningfully to their personal and professional growth. As such, research efforts shall be invested in evaluating the methods and tools in a systematic user-centric process to determine their effectiveness and impact in lifelong learning.

scholarly journals Personal and social training as a part of class teachers’ lifelong learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuzana Geršicová ◽  
Silvia Barnová
Keyword(s):  
Social Development ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Family Background ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Pedagogical Training ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Introduction: The presented paper deals with the issues of the work of class teachers and their further education in the field of personal and social training. The main goal of the research was to find out about changes in personal and social development after the realization of social-pedagogical training. Methods: On the level of personal development, the authors were interested in the field of values and attitudes. On the level of social development, they focused on the changes in communication and opinion scales. The changes in the above fields were measured by means of a pre-test and a post-test which were administered before and after the realization of the training. Results: In the participants of the realized research, the research team, to a certain extent, succeeded in reducing prejudice and beliefs and the participants learnt about the necessity of considering students’ individual abilities and specific environmental influences on their behavior and manifestations at school. On the level of opinions, there was a shift towards a stronger belief in the significance of the impact of the environment and the family background on students’ behaviour and their personality traits. Discussion: The presented data are the results of a pilot probe and have brought initial insights related to the presented issues for the purposes of a longer and deeper research, which is in the phase of its realization. Limitations: As the project was realized with ten groups of teachers showing a deep interest in participating in it, it is not our ambition to generalize the obtained results; nevertheless, we find them interesting and inspiring. Conclusions: Along with knowledge from pedagogy and psychology, class teachers need a huge amount of creativity, ideas, techniques and methods, which can promote the development of students’ value orientation. The authors can see a clear perspective for teachers’ lifelong learning here

scholarly journals Los entornos personales de aprendizaje en el marco de la educación permanente

EDMETIC ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Elvira E. Navas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environment ◽  
Siglo Xx

<p>En este trabajo se presenta un estudio documental sobre el surgimiento, evolución y estado actual de la utilización y desarrollo de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (Personal Learning Environment, PLE) en el marco de la Educación Permanente o Aprendizaje para Toda la vida (Lifelong Learning). En primer lugar, se hace una revisión del concepto de Educación Permanente desde la literatura de inicios de siglo XX. A continuación, se procede a estudiar el término PLE, desde sus orígenes hasta la interpretación actual. Se presentan experiencias tanto nacionales como internacionales donde se ejemplifica de forma práctica la utilización de PLE en la educación universitaria. Finalmente, se hace una reflexión de cierre sobre las proyecciones de futuro del uso de los PLE en el marco de la educación permanente.</p>

scholarly journals Los entornos personales de aprendizaje en el marco de la educación permanente

EDMETIC ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 94
Author(s):  
Elvira E. Navas
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Personal Learning Environment ◽  
Siglo Xx

<p>En este trabajo se presenta un estudio documental sobre el surgimiento, evolución y estado actual de la utilización y desarrollo de los Entornos Personales de Aprendizaje (Personal Learning Environment, PLE) en el marco de la Educación Permanente o Aprendizaje para Toda la vida (Lifelong Learning). En primer lugar, se hace una revisión del concepto de Educación Permanente desde la literatura de inicios de siglo XX. A continuación, se procede a estudiar el término PLE, desde sus orígenes hasta la interpretación actual. Se presentan experiencias tanto nacionales como internacionales donde se ejemplifica de forma práctica la utilización de PLE en la educación universitaria. Finalmente, se hace una reflexión de cierre sobre las proyecciones de futuro del uso de los PLE en el marco de la educación permanente.</p>

scholarly journals THEORETICAL BASIS OF FORMING FUTURE TEACHER’S PROFESSIONAL MOTIVATION IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-30
Author(s):  
Оксана Браславська ◽  
Людмила Озерова
Keyword(s):  
Personal Development ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Pedagogical Orientation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Procedural Components ◽  
Stimulation Of

The necessity of professional motivation formation as an important component of future teachers' professional training has been substantiated in the article. The purpose of the paper is to analyse the factors that influence future professionals' positive professional motivation formation in the field of education. The results of the work are a description of the basic concepts of the motivation of the future teacher's professional-personal development, outlining their main features and defining the tasks and ways of professional growth of the students of higher education pedagogical institution. The proper motivation of the future teacher is nothing but a skilful internal stimulation of the individual's activity in the process of working on himself, is an encouragement to his own development and improvement. Formation of motivational sphere implies education of future ideals and teachers of professional ideals, value orientations, and pedagogical orientation. The motivational realm of professional development consists of many indicators that are constantly changing and interacting with one another. In the structure of motivation, the resultant and procedural components have been distinguished. The meaning of human activity is but is not limited to, the result. After all, the activity itself also makes sense: the process of activity itself, not its result, drives the subject. Each person has his or her own relatively stable system of motives for activity, depending on his (her outlook, orientation, personality traits, self-consciousness, life and professional experience, intelligence, psychophysiology).

Strategies for Effective Digital Games Development and Implementation

2013 ◽  
pp. 168-198 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Lim ◽  
S. Louchart ◽  
N. Suttie ◽  
J.M. Ritchie ◽  
R.S. Aylett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Games ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Game Mechanics ◽  
Games Development

Digital technologies have increased the pace of knowledge creation, sharing, and the way in which learning is being undertaken. This chapter considers how Serious Games (SGs) as a digital technology endeavours to support effective lifelong learning. Three fundamental characteristics of the SG ecosystem, namely, game mechanics, interoperability, and assessment, are considered here as strategic elements that impact upon how SGs are to support learning, how they affect the learning environment, and ultimately, the SG development process. A prospective deconstruction of SGs into its pedagogical elements and its game mechanic nodes is presented to make aware the interoperability modus from which topical (domain) frameworks or architectures can be structured and assessed. To this end, the chapter explores the conceptual underpinnings through a case study on the eAdventure platform and argues that the key elements form the foundation for strategic development and implementation of SGs.

Setting up a Learning Environment in an Interdisciplinary Professional Collaboration

2015 ◽  
pp. 329-347
Author(s):  
Elin Legland
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Situated Learning ◽  
Professional Growth ◽  
Research Work ◽  
University Education ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
Joint Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Learning ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Practical Research

Collaboration between universities, industries and other professional societies enables students to enter interdisciplinary learning environments through joint research. Stakeholders can attain their objectives through collaboration and a range of competitive advantages in own business sector. From an economic perspective, the fruits of research and development such as intelligent property are motivators for collaboration. From an educational perspective, this three party collaboration provides opportunities for situated learning that link theoretical studies with practical research work. This chapter discusses the contributions to the learning environment from collaboration between education, research and industry, and their impact on the professional growth of engineering graduates in the field of Material Science. Through self-reflection on experience, author argued that by combining theoretical knowledge from university education and research with practical skills and experience gained from the industry, students develop individual empowerment and bring future business advantages to the industries where they would later work.

Challenges to Use Recommender Systems to Enhance Meta-Cognitive Functioning in Online Learners

Data Mining ◽  
2013 ◽  
pp. 1916-1935
Author(s):  
Mingming Zhou ◽  
Yabo Xu
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Cognitive Strategies ◽  
Monitoring And Control ◽  
Online Learners ◽  
Data Mining Algorithms ◽  
E Learning ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Mining Algorithms

A wealth of research has shown that meta-cognition plays a crucial role in the promotion of effective school learning. In most of the e-learning environment designs, however, meta-cognitive strategies have generally been neglected, and therefore, satisfactory uses of these strategies have rarely been realized. Most learners are not even aware of what they have been studying. If the learning system could automatically guide and intelligently recommend learning activities or strategies to facilitate student monitoring and control of their learning, it would favor and improve their learning process and performance. Unfortunately, nearly no e-learning systems to date have attempted to do so. In this chapter, we first described the need for enhancing meta-cognitive skills in e-learning environment, followed by an outline of major challenges for meta-cognitive activity recommendations. We then proposed to adopt data mining algorithms (i.e., content-based and sequence-based recommendation techniques) to meet the identified issues with a toy example.

Cognitive Skills through CALL-Enhanced Teacher Training

2011 ◽  
pp. 158-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Vinther
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Learning Environment ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Learning Tool ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Computer Based

The efficacy of computer-based activities that can incorporate grammar as well as language acquisition is at the centre of debates in CALL and SLA. The concern for this chapter is the integration of CALL in the language classroom in a blended learning environment that includes the acquisition of grammatical content and its effect on language acquisition at a level where the learners are proficient users and communicators. The courseware under investigation was shown to be an effective learning tool for the metalinguistic curriculum and the acquisition of particular English structures, such as tenses and adverbials, but not for morphology. The results give grounds for the conclusion that, if the courseware invites students to apply cognitive skills (rather than mere drills), there will be an effect on language acquisition through the knowledge of grammar.

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