EXCELLENT STUDY SKILLS AND INFORMATION LITERACY ABSTRACT Open and Distance Learning is an alternative platform for people who want to pursue their tertiary education. This is especially true in the case of working professionals who wish to learn while on their job. However‚ it has always been a challenge to cope with learning verifying degrees of skills as they lack face to face interaction when compared to traditional learners. The main challenge of distance learning is that direct real-time
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1.1 Identify Core Counselling Skills Counselling skills are necessary tools used by trained counsellors to help clients through issues. At some point in their lives‚ people will find themselves in situations where they take on the role of counsellor without having had any training or understanding of the concept of counselling. This is quite common when a friend or family member needs some guidance. Core counselling skills include non-verbal communication (NVC) where facial expressions‚ body
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Know the difference between learning styles and learning modalities.[1] Learning styles: what do we know?[2] What are learning styles?[3] Learning styles are simply the way a child learns best.[4] Learning styles theory says that there are different learning modalities and that individuals have a preferred modality.[5] A consequence of this theory is that effective teaching should present a variety of teaching methods which cover all three learning modalities so that different students have equal
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This paper will compare the different learning styles of the VARK questionnaire. It will differentiate the results of the questionnaire and one’s preferred learning style. There are three different learning styles in the VARK questionnaire and a combination of four scores are used to determine one’s learning style. The VARK questionnaire provides a combination of four scores. The four scores the VARK questionnaire analyses are visual‚ aural‚ read/write‚ and kinesthetic. A VARK profile is a combination
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will discuss why understanding learning styles is useful to student nurses. In addition‚ I will discuss my own dominate learning styles‚ paying attention to my strengths and weaknesses‚ also identifying areas where it is necessary for me to improve my weaker learning style‚ and how I can build on this for the future development. Within nursing there are lots of different study and learning methods available to us. A persons learning styles or main process of learning is crucial to their development
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LEARNING STYLES QUESTIONNAIRE Adapted from FEDA Project (RP M132 H) 1998 This questionnaire will help you to discover the way you learn best: visual‚ audio or practical. You may show a strong preference for one learning style and‚ if so‚ you can become a more effective learner by developing the alternative styles. • There are no right or wrong answers and there are no trick questions. • You can take as long as you need to complete the questionnaire. (It will probably take between
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Research Essay Wendy Is marriage out of style? What is the most popular topic of girls? The answer to the question is “love and marriage”. It’s true. Almost all of girls hope Mr. Right would appear with “glass slipper” next second. As a girl‚ I have taken part in lots of talks about marriage with same-aged girls. However‚ my cousin is an exception. I had to listen to her “Single Theory” whenever I mentioned the imagination of marriage. She said‚ “Marriage is out of date. It will be not necessary
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LEARNING STYLES INVENTORY Submitted To: Prof. Ramakrishna Chadaga Submitted by: Dr. Divya Sainath CONTENTS Introduction 3 Basis of Kolb ’s Experiential Learning Model 4 The Learning Cycle 4 EXAMPLES 7 Kolb ’s Learning Styles 7 Diverging (concrete‚ reflective) 8 Assimilating (abstract‚ reflective) 8 Converging (abstract‚ active) 8 Accommodating (concrete‚ active) 8 Relationships between kolb and other behavioural/personality theories 9 Honey and mumford ’s variation on the kolb
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As David Kolb explains‚ people prefer different and particular styles of learning. Their choice is influenced by many factors. Kolb identified four learning styles which are based on a four-stage learning cycle. This cycle shows how experience is translated through reflection into concepts‚ which in turn are used as guides for active experimentation and the choice of new experiences. Concrete Experience (CE) - the learner actively experiences an activity‚ hands-on experience. “DO” Reflective
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Learning Style Comparison 1 Learning Style Comparison HSN/540 Teaching and Learning Strategies Learning Style Comparison 2 Learning Styles Comparison In today’s job market employers are seeking individuals that are ready to take on new positions that require advance training. The job market is very competitive and the low skill jobs are disappearing forcing adults to return to school to learn new skills and be trained to fill these new positions. An Individual that is aware of
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