tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313978.post113517463039527645..comments2023-11-03T06:03:50.388-07:00Comments on The Learning Circuits Blog: The Most Important ingredient in Formal Learningjayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16271633210993298646noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313978.post-1135899676001454802005-12-29T15:41:00.000-08:002005-12-29T15:41:00.000-08:00Clark,Interesting comment about 'honesty'. I'm in...Clark,<BR/><BR/>Interesting comment about 'honesty'. I'm in the middle of a study about graduate students in 'Training & Development'. Each week of class, I have them post a private 'I Can' sheet. For each skill/objective we cover, they indicate 'Yes', 'No', and 'Needs Work', along with optional comments. This self-assessment is completely separate from their grade; grading is based on performance. A student can turn in a great assignment (I'm using this in a course on e-learning course design), but only the student truly know whether he/she is comfortable with their learning or skill level. At the end of the course, I ask them a series of qualitative questions, asking things such as "How did you decide between 'Yes' and 'Needs work'? and 'If you marked a skill as "Needs work", what plans do you have to improve the skill?'<BR/><BR/>Vince Cyboran<BR/>Roosevelt UniversityAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313978.post-1135340244005118782005-12-23T04:17:00.000-08:002005-12-23T04:17:00.000-08:00Brilliant point, even if I can't tell if it is mad...Brilliant point, even if I can't tell if it is made cynically or not.<BR/><BR/>According to the research I did for Learning By Doing, about 15 to 20 percent of participants in sims can't make the leap. And often the traditional experts of the material taught in the sim have the hardest time.<BR/><BR/>Having said that, I believe the lack of honesty gets in the way of suspension of belief.Clark Aldrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114766550628282842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313978.post-1135209410732719102005-12-21T15:56:00.000-08:002005-12-21T15:56:00.000-08:00Yes, in this context, I was using culture for ente...Yes, in this context, I was using culture for enterprise culture (I don't want to let governments and academics off the hook!).Clark Aldrichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02114766550628282842noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10313978.post-1135201236483451342005-12-21T13:40:00.000-08:002005-12-21T13:40:00.000-08:00Clark,As a specialist of culture and intercultural...Clark,<BR/>As a specialist of culture and intercultural phenomena, I was wondering what you meant by culture. Is it corporate culture? <BR/><BR/>I've always stressed that for training we need to take into account three basic levels of culture: <BR/>1. national or regional (country, language, tradition, religion, ethics etc.)<BR/>2. institutional (e.g. corporate)<BR/>3. learning culture (the value attributed, at a largely unconscious – i.e. spontaneous – level to continuous learning, evolution and extension of competency).<BR/><BR/>By taking into account the first, which means above all showing some kind of recognition of who the learners are, and effectively harmonizing the other two, learning becomes natural and collective, not just the result of individual competitive effort. <BR/><BR/>I agree, by the way, that honesty and sense of humor definitely go hand in hand; the absence of one usually indicates the likely absence of the other.Peter Isacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11345466329362975451noreply@blogger.com