Discusses instructional practices to help college students with learning disabilities, showing how models of self-regulated learning characterize knowledge, beliefs, and skills that students with learning disabilities need to succeed in school and presenting the Strategic Content Learning (SCL) model, which promotes self-regulated learning. The…

Presents aspects of the traditional ISD (Instructional Systems Design) process that may change when moving a learning object strategy. Compares a traditional ISD process to a process that has been customized to fit the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of learning objects, regardless of how they are used as a performance…

Discusses the differences between training, which usually focuses on more specific job skills, and teaching, which is usually more concerned with acquiring declarative knowledge. Suggests training should be made more like teaching, focusing more on understanding, emphasizing intrinsic goals of learning, problem solving, and subject-specific…

The number of chief learning officers, mostly in Fortune 500 companies, has increased significantly in recent years. The increase does not indicate that companies are committed to strategic learning; executives want proof that it helps the bottom line. (JOW)

Discusses learning strategies that, if adopted, will ensure the continued success of the learning disabled in a variety of higher education settings. The framework consists of support, time management, technical, and comprehension strategies. (JOW)

Notes that motivating students to apply new study strategies can be difficult but that obtaining student feedback gives teachers insight into the matter. Offers 10 ideas encompassing students' suggestions on how to motivate students. (SR)

Reviews research on the brain and memory, emotions, aging, and learning. Outlines practice implications: connect new learning to personal experiences, make sure learners are paying attention, recognize the role of emotions, and be aware that stimulation influences the aging brain. (SK)

Somatic or embodied learning recognizes bodily experience as a source of knowledge. Narrative learning involves examination of personal stories as a process of meaning making and identity development. Both offer creative alternatives for adult learning. (Contains 28 references.) (SK)

Discusses changes in accepted approaches to teaching and learning, shifts in psychological and pedagogical theory towards a constructivist view of learning, and the consequences of these theoretical shifts for computer assisted learning. Explains a classification scheme for constructivism that provides a framework for looking at constructivist…

Discusses how information technology can help to bring learning and working together by making work and its organizational context visible; describes a framework based on activity theory for structuring what should be made visible; and provides an example case system based on this structure to support learning in work. (Author/LRW)

Examined three- to six-year olds' strategy selection in a task involving placing objects according to verbal sentences (remember) or rating the sentence (not remember). Found that subjects instructed to remember used more external strategies than those not instructed to remember. Results from both older and younger subjects confirmed the…

Describes CASTE (Course Assembly System and Tutorial Environment) that was developed to help students choose appropriate learning strategies in a hypertext environment. Highlights include the need for principles of course design; resource-based learning and computer-aided learning; conversation theory; and a comparison to other approaches.…

Generative learning provides students with opportunities to organize course content, integrate new content with students' current knowledge, and elaborate on course content by making connections to real-world events. These opportunities promote less reliance on professors' lectures and simultaneously create more self-reliance among students. The…

This research note outlines a project designed to investigate the role of training institutions in providing effective training and development programmes for managers. The investigation is being carried out in the light of recent criticisms levelled against the nature of formal learning environments prevalent in most institutional settings. The…

In this article, the author gives an overview of learning strategy instruction and describes how to implement this evidenced-based practice in classroom and whole-school settings. He also discusses this information as it relates to the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act.