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As it’s nearly St. Patrick’s Day…There’s an American-Irish comedian (yes that’s correct – a Bronx native who’s emigrated to Ireland) called Des Bishop who decided to learn to speak the Irish language. More about his encounter with learning Irish and the context for e-learning and language teaching later.
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For non-Irish people – apparently there [...]

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In previous posts, I’ve suggested that knowledge workers under time-pressure and with high demands on their skills are motivated to continually educate themselves on new topics. In small- to mid-sized enterprises, for example, workers are required to learn new skills, behaviours and attitudes in the context of their functional tasks. As they do not necessarily [...]

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I guess it’s now time to move on to some of the “big picture” stuff and begin to outline how I characterise terms like “learning” and “e-learning.”
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In the field of organisational development, the terms ‘training’ and ‘learning’ are often used interchangeably: both broadly refer to the acquisition of new or enhanced knowledge, skills, attitudes [...]

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In the years since Kolb first devised the learning styles inventory, the definitions of the four learning styles – Diverging, Assimilating, Converging, and Accommodating – (see Table 1), have been refined through research and clinical observation (2000, p.4) in studies carried out in 1984 and 1999.

Table 1 Kolb’s Learning Styles’ Characteristics

Learning style

Learning characteristic

Description

Converger

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Experiential learning theory (ELT) describes learning as “the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience” (Kolb, 1984, p.41). ELT attempts to express the holistic nature of the learning process can be described as a learning model in that it attempts to integrate (see Figure 1.1) portrays what Eickmann, Kolb and Kolb describe [...]

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