scholarly journals Learning from Home Behavior: Looking beyond Learning Opportunity and Non-opportunity

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Kanyawee Duangpim ◽  
Pornchita Khamhueng ◽  
Athittaya Kaewpikul ◽  
Prasart Nuangchalerm
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunity

Auditor Errors: Avoid Like the Plague or a Learning Opportunity?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gold ◽  
Oscar van Mourik ◽  
Philip Wallage ◽  
Arnold Wright
Keyword(s):  
Learning Opportunity

Service-Learning Opportunities for Preservice Music Teachers within Community Music Settings

2019 ◽  
pp. 641-667
Author(s):  
Jared R. Rawlings
Keyword(s):  
Preservice Teachers ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teacher Development ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Music Teacher ◽  
Teacher Preparation Program ◽  
Community Music ◽  
Learning Program ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Learning Programs

Authentic teaching opportunities are important for all preservice teachers, and service-learning opportunities within community music settings support preservice music teacher development. The purpose of this chapter is to document a service-learning opportunity within a community music school and showcase the benefits and challenges of a partnership between a music teacher preparation program and this school. After defining service learning and describing how it is utilized in music teacher education, the chapter uncovers the following topics: establishing a community music partnership, designing a service-learning opportunity, and evaluating the outcomes of service-learning programs. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the implications of and recommendations for utilizing a multi-tier service-learning program alongside a preservice music teacher curriculum.

Meeting the Unique Needs of Gifted Students Through an Arts-Integrated, Project-Based Learning Opportunity: The EncycloMEdia Project

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 151-170
Author(s):  
Dhara Baiden
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Gifted And Talented ◽  
Arts Integration ◽  
Writing Skills ◽  
Gifted Students ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Integrated Project ◽  
Talented Students

The “EncycloMEdia” project provides a stimulating project-based opportunity for gifted and talented students in the middle and upper grades. Its first component is an arts-integration piece in the form of an altered book. The second component is a cumulative assessment document containing students’ text-based analyses that correspond to the entries in the altered book. Both components of the project require students to develop valuable critical thinking and writing skills. This integrated, project-based unit can be modified to address any subject area. Detailed descriptions of the content, process, and product are included so educators can implement this idea with their own gifted students.

scholarly journals Introducing Medical Student–led Quality Improvement Projects as a Value‐added Learning Opportunity in the Emergency Department

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-302
Author(s):  
Haridha Sudhakara Pandian ◽  
Priyanka Shivaraman Iyer ◽  
Jasmine Kaur Bhangra ◽  
Aditi Nijhawan
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Medical Student ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
A Value

Workplace fun and informal learning: the mediating role of motivation to learn, learning opportunities and management support

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Morteza Taheri ◽  
Sharareh Motealleh ◽  
Jalil Younesi
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Workplace Fun ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Past research shows that workplace fun has a positive effect on informal learning, however, the role of individual and organizational mediating variables in this relation has not been studied much. This study aims to examine the role of management support, motivation to learn and learning opportunity in the relationship between workplace fun and informal learning. Design/methodology/approach In this multivariate correlation study, data were collected through questionnaires. In total, 200 employees of the petrochemical industry participated. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data. Findings The main finding suggests that motivation to learn contributes to informal learning. Fun in the workplace has a positive and significant indirect effect on informal learning by providing a variety of opportunities to learn; the management support in the final model also mediates the relationship between workplace fun and opportunities to learn. Practical implications The results indicate the benefits of creating and maintaining fun in the workplace to improve informal learning. The authors will be better able to advise by providing abundant resources for formal training such as time, learning climate and financial resources, workplace fun can be used as a practical strategy to promote informal learning where the workplace is fun, innovation, creativity and performance improvement occur. Managers should make arrangements to spontaneously motivate employees to learn informally and provide fun and varied opportunities for informal learning. Originality/value In this study, the multiple correlations and the effect of motivation variables, learning opportunity and management support in the relationship between workplace fun and informal learning were studied. Examining how these relationships are and identifying the moderator of this relationship because of individual and environmental differences requires further studies.

scholarly journals The Unexpected Rewards of Qualitative Research in Assessment: A Case Example

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Penny Singh
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Focus Group Discussions ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Oral Assessment ◽  
Oral Component

This paper reports on the inclusion of an oral component of assessment in science at two tertiary institutions in South Africa. The purpose of this paper is not to report on the results of the assessments conducted, but to focus on some of the unexpected rewards of conducting qualitative research in assessment. Using focus group discussions within a qualitative framework allowed me insights into the thoughts and experiences of the students and assessors, making the benefits of oral assessment apparent. These benefits included how assessment can be used as a learning opportunity, the advantages of homogeneous versus heterogeneous groups, and the benefits of face-to-face interaction, all of which led to improved relationships between students and assessors.

scholarly journals Combining statistics: The effects of phonotactics on cross-situational word learning

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Dal Ben ◽  
Débora de Hollanda Souza ◽  
Jessica Hay
Keyword(s):  
Word Learning ◽  
Learning Opportunities ◽  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
Facilitative Effect ◽  
Learning Paradigm ◽  
Learning Opportunity ◽  
Exploratory Investigation

Regularities in speech can both help listeners make sense of their noisy world and support word learning. Two types of regularities that influence word learning are word-object co-occurrences and phonotactic probabilities. Here we conduct an exploratory investigation of the effects of phonotactics on word learning in ambiguous contexts. Brazilian-Portuguese speaking adults (N = 62) participated. Using a cross-situational word learning paradigm, we conducted two experiments in which sets of words with different phonotactic probabilities were presented in parallel, during the same learning opportunity, or sequentially, split across two learning opportunities. We found no effect of phonotactics on word learning in the first experiment, but we found a facilitative effect for the words with the highest phonotactics in the second experiment. Our results suggest that phonotactics and co-occurrence statistics can be combined to aid word learning, but only when learning opportunities highlight PP differences.

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