To understand how social media is changing adult learning, all you have to do is take a look at your phone, tablet or computer. You are connected to at least three different social media portals at all times that enable you to stay in constant contact with the people around you. Furthermore, on these social media portals you can communicate with your friends and family, as well as some of your … [Read more...]
All You Need To Know About the SolidWorks Certification Process
Get a significant professional edge with the SolidWorks certification! At the moment, more than 165,000 companies worldwide are using the SolidWorks computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) software programs. Getting certified as a proficient SolidWorks user is, therefore, going to provide you with a key advantage when seeking employment. We are going to walk you through … [Read more...]
The Pros and Cons of Constructivism in Modern Day Education
The theory of constructivism states that people are only able to learn by making use of the previous social experiences in their lives. They use new information in association with their experience to create new mental representations of this information. Therefore, people create subjective ideas about objective concepts because the personal component is so important. This theory has … [Read more...]
10 Ways to Create Solid Behavioral Objectives
Setting solid behavioral objectives is essential for coordinating a group, regardless of its purpose. Whether you are a project manager and you need to point out to your employees what you want them to do or a teacher who is assigning tasks for the class, the manner in which you describe the goals you expect to be completed will directly affect how they will be carried out. Let us give you a few … [Read more...]
What Can Computer Based Training Do for Your Company?
Computer based training has a self-explanatory name – it involves instruction courses that are delivered via a computer. CBT is nothing new under the Sun. It has been employed in corporate training for more than a decade. However, it began drawing more attention a couple years back. Owed to new computer based training software, the techniques are no longer faulty, but manage to carry out their … [Read more...]
3 Tips for Effective Desktop Publishing
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Desktop publishing can be tricky. If you want your desktop-published products (documents or presentations) to have a greater impact and communicate your message more clearly, you must carefully consider several basic design decisions. You may be familiar with the types of products produced by popular software such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, and Microsoft … [Read more...]
Integrating Technology in the Classroom [3 Main Considerations]
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. As you integrate emerging technology into your classrooms, in your course syllabus you should (1) communicate a list of tools that will be used and your reason(s) for using each, (2) include a list of required supplemental equipment, and (3) articulate access expectations and resources (Pacansky-Brock, 2013). Upon entering a class, students should have an opportunity … [Read more...]
What is a flipped classroom?
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. In the traditional classroom, the teacher lectures for the majority of the class time, gives an assignment, and students usually have very limited or no time at all to work on the assignment in class where the help is - while the teacher is present. The flipped classroom is conducted in nearly the opposite fashion. In the flipped classroom, students are assigned … [Read more...]
Constructivism [Two Cognitive Theorists Compared]
Shirley J. Caruso, Ed.D. Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky Theories of Constructivism Two cognitive psychologists, Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky, developed theories of constructivism that addressed cognitive development and learning among children, adolescents, and adults. While there are similarities between the two theories, there are also differences, and those differences are significant to the … [Read more...]
Three Contemporary Extensions of Administrative Perspectives [Contingency Theory, Systems Theory, and Emergent Nontraditional Perspectives]
Shirley J. Caruso According to Lunenburg and Ornstein (2012), “theories determine the number and kinds of phenomena that are relevant to a study” (p. 3). Theories, then, are a result of studies. The types of information obtained from these studies are valuable because this information can be used to determine the constructs of phenomena beneficial in forming a theoretical framework resulting … [Read more...]