Items related to Managing Your Own Learning: [large print edition]
![9781459634015: Managing Your Own Learning: [large print edition]](https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9781459634015-uk.jpg)
Synopsis
Describes seven major ways of learning and shows how each can best be used to maximize self-directed learning.
Provides a step-by-step guide to assessing previous learning and designing an action plan for future learning.
Reveals how to expand opportunities for learning and use libraries and the Internet more effectively.
As the pace of change in the workplace continues to accelerate, individuals are under more pressure to learn new things than ever before. While most people realize they have more to learn, many have trouble translating that anxious need into purposeful action. Managing Your Own Learning demonstrates how to analyze previous learning, design an action plan for future learning, expand opportunities for learning, and use libraries and the Internet effectively to become a lifelong learner.
James and Adelaide Davis detail seven major ways of learning: learning new skills, learning from presentations, learning to think, learning to solve problems and make decisions, learning in groups, learning through virtual realities, and learning from experience. They also provide useful guidelines for maximizing results by becoming an effective, active participant in learning.
They explain, for example, how learning in a group can be enhanced by knowing how a group works and considering factors such as group size, cohesion, task and process behavior, and participant roles, as well as the things that can go wrong in groups, such as conflict and apathy.
For each of the seven ways of learning, the authors tell what is unique about it, how learning actually takes place, and how it can be augmented in each situation. They reveal how the theory behind each way of learning originated, what researchers have learned about it, and what the individual's role is as a participant. And at the end of each chapter, they include a list of ten things that anyone can do to get the most from that particular type of learning.
No matter what our previous experiences with learning may have been, we all must become self-directed learners if we are to succeed in this new era. Managing Your Own Learning provides step-by-step, proven advice on how to succeed in the 21st century workplace by becoming a proactive, goal-directed, perpetual learner.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Publisher
To improve your own future learning this book maybe for you
If you want to improve the management of your own future learning and thus be certain to flourish and prosper in the 21st century, then this book maybe for you. It is relevant to those in the workforce, formal, part time and independant learners, emerging, awakening and recovering learners, and those who might be helping them.
The book is very practical with clever use of text, headings and bullet points to emphasise issues. It offers regular 'time-outs' in each chapter to encourage imagined situations, understanding important points or to provide an example that will connect the content to personal experience.
There is a lot to absorb; independent readers will enjoy reading the book straight through and running with the ideas. Others, like me, would benefit from regular dips into the sections, sharing it with peers of like mind and, most importantly, a mentor for reinforcement and encouragement because the behavioural change implications for success are a significant challenge.
RATINGS:
Innovation *** Readability **** Clarity **** usability **** Value ***
TRAINING JOURNAL - June 2000
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
(No Available Copies)
Search Books: Create a WantCan't find the book you're looking for? We'll keep searching for you. If one of our booksellers adds it to AbeBooks, we'll let you know!
Create a Want
