Personalizing Learning

ISBN-13: 9783639128468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 224 str.

Ray Webster

Opis

Business in the Knowledge Society needsmanagers and employees who are autonomous lifelonglearners,flexible and adaptable. To enablethis, education in the 21st Century requires thatstudents become active and independent learners. Akey problem is how is this transition, from therelatively passive learner model that the majority ofeducators and students most readily recognize, to that of active learner, to be achieved? This bookdescribes a method of enabling this transition byinvolving learners in a participatory design processthat transforms their ability to understand their ownlearning - and that of others. Themethodology, allied with the design and developmentof a personalized online environment, provides theframework, the processes and the set of outcomes thatallow the student or trainee to develop into anindependent and autonomous lifelong learner. The bookshould be of great interest to managers, educatorsand students alike. The emergence of socialnetworking has made the approach even more valuableas the opportunities for sharing learning resources,matching learner types and creating effective teamshave continued to increase.

O autorze

Ray Webster, BA, MSc, PhD, received his PhD in Educational Research from Lancaster University and his MSc in Intelligent Systems from Brunel University. He has worked in information systems/education in several countries, including Vietnam, Malaysia and Turkey.