Module 6 Learning Processes: Module Overview

This module focuses on the role of youth in development workers as educators. It explores different theories of learning and how they have influenced different philosophies of education. It identifies the different ways in which people learn and the factors which inhibit or faciliate learning.

The module also looks at experiential learning, as the method most appropriate to youth in development workers, and appropriate strategies for face-to-face work with young people and training situations with adults.


Class daily assignments

To make our life easier, our lecturer, Dr. Leong posted the questions for the daily assignment in his blog at http://shbie.wordpress.com . So it really a convenient for us as part-time student as:
to :

• fosters interaction among us and our lecturer. Interaction stimulates understanding and the recall of information.
• Accommodates different learning styles and fosters learning through a variety of activities that apply to different learning styles.
• fosters self-paced learning whereby we can learn at the rate we prefer.
• Convenient for us to access any time, any place.
• Encourages us to browse information through hyperlinks to sites on the worldwide Web and there by find information relevant to our personal situations.
• Allows us to select learning materials, or to be directed to content that meets our level of knowledge, interest and what we need to know to perform more effectively in our particular activity.
• Develops knowledge of the Internet that will help us throughout our careers.
• Encouraging us to take responsibility for our learning and succeeding builds self-knowledge and self-confidence

“Education over the Internet is going to be so big it is going to make e-mail look
like a rounding error.”
John Chambers, CEO, Cisco System