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		<title>Work experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its a shame I won&#8217;t be continuing this subject while I&#8217;m doing my work experience at QBE because I found out on Wednesday (at the meeting I had with a couple of the staff there who will be superivising me) that I can have access to a number of QBE&#8217;s e-Learning programs and see how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collection of general thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve written up as many blogs as I possibly could have in the past week or so without losing my sanity (okay, did I have it in the first place? haha) and my brain is at a point where it just hurts.
Maybe thats the lack of sleep though&#8230; I reckon I&#8217;ve had 10-12 hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social learning theory</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This learning theory combines behaviourist reinforcement with cognitive processes in order to understand the behaviour of others.
The actions of observing and modelling are very important in the social learning theory, as are experience and expectations, which both relate to each other.
I know a bit less about the social learning theory, but I aim to look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The constructivist approach to learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the first constructivist theorists, Bruner, based his theory on learning by discovery.
He also states that the learning environments should promote problem solving, as well as stressing more group work than individualised work.
The constructivist learning theory is based on a number of assumptions, namely:

knowledge is constructed from experience
learning is a personal interpretation of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The humanist approach to learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirstenr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humanist learning theorists believe that learners are persons of free will and will choose what, how and when they will learn. (Tovey &#38; Lawlor, 2008)
It is developed from the cognitive approach, but believes that the learner is ever seeking to increase their own knowledge and to continue their learning.
In the humanist approach, learners learn by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cognitive approach to learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cognitive approach emphasises experience, meaningfulness and insight.
Cognitivists also believe that learners will behave and learn in terms of what is real for them.
In cognitive learning, tools such as advance organisers are used to provide a scaffold to bridge the gap betweeen what they know and what they need to know before they can understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The behaviourist approach to learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirstenr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The behaviourist approach to learning thinks about human behaviour in terms of cause and effect: a stimulus prompts a certain response, which is then reinforced by continual exposure to the stimulus, changing the behaviour.
A lot of children are taught on environments that fit with the behaviourist approach. For example, if a student misbehaves at school, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is learning?</title>
		<link>http://kirstenr.edublogs.org/2008/06/06/what-is-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[definition]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I think about how I define learning, it is hard to pin to down as one concrete phrase.
Learning for me is the acquisition of new knowledge and skills, and then putting the new knowledge and skills into practice. It involves understanding theories but also the practical application of them.
Learning can bring about a change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What are LMS&#8217;s and LCMS&#8217;s?!?!?</title>
		<link>http://kirstenr.edublogs.org/2008/06/05/what-are-lmss-and-lcmss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirstenr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[DoCS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;ve seen the terms, and I&#8217;ve even talked about them, and I can even define them &#8211; LMS is a learner management system, and LCMS is a learning content management system. Do I know what they are exactly? Heck no!
That&#8217;s where Greenberg&#8217;s article comes in.
According to Greenberg:
The focus of an LMS is to manage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual worlds</title>
		<link>http://kirstenr.edublogs.org/2008/06/04/virtual-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirstenr</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our class on Second Life was a little while ago, however since then I have signed up and gone through Orientation Island and a few other places like jokaydia and Australia myself.
Even on my broadband, SL is slow and clunky. It takes a bit of time for my avatar to realise I&#8217;m trying to move [...]]]></description>
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