People and Talents

Before this course, I was opportune to take a course from the United Kingdom from Cameroon about 10 years ago, where course materials were shared via postal systems, and students were expected to self-study with the help and guidance of a local subject matter expert (SME) and take a one-time paper-based test. According to Johnston (2020), this form of distance education is known as correspondence courses, and its use dates to 1728. This paper-based test was facilitated by an external body in Cameroon, with roles being exam administration and supervision in designated centers. The support of the SME was a personal step left at the learners' discretion. For learners who could not have a local SME guide, feedback was only shared with learners after the one-time assessment was taken in the form of scores and grades. This learning and teaching approach was understood by me as distance learning simply due to the geographically spatial separation between instructor and learner. ...

  Learning is still much of a complex process. For me to say I have gained new knowledge, know how, and when to use this knowledge and use it effectively relies mainly on the use of a mix of learning theories, learning styles, and in some instances, assistance from technology. Again, understanding, retaining, and retrieving information is a process that involves complex scientific elements involving the human brain ( Walden University, LLC. , n.d). In my understanding, this cognitive dimension of learning seems to sit at the central point of learning. When applied or used in learning, all learning theories and styles require the brain to process, retain, and retrieve the needed information using varied methods, speed, and comprehension. Confidently, I can say I learn by using various learning theories and styles. As an adult learner, I tend to learn best when making decisions about what I learn and determining a reason to answer the ‘why’ the choice of a particular course or subj...

  According to George Siemens(Walden University, LLC, n.d), adults have an abundance of information that needs to be distributed. This idea is further backed by Davis et al.(2008), who note that we cannot learn everything personally. Adult learning is about connecting ideas and seeing relevant patterns from unrelated and diverse contents (Davis et al. 2005). Getting information from various sources has improved my ability to make these connections, make choices of what information is relevant at a particular time, and discard information when it becomes outdated. It has also served best at providing and maintaining information flow which is an essential factor in learning (Siemens, 2005). It is no news that technology has significantly influenced the half-life of information(Davis et al. 2008) as information relevant today may quickly become irrelevant tomorrow as new information is rendered available enabled by technology. Some digital tools that have facilitated learning are Wh...

  By Foretia epse Atem Ajong.   Date: 20 th  March 2022. The brain has been likened to a computer and its processes that are involved in information processing, learning, and solving problems(Walden, University, LLC, n.d). In this regard, writers such as Pappas (2016) mention three stages of information processing and problem-solving: inputs, storage, and outputs. The inputs here are stimuli gathered through the human senses such as hearing, seeing, touching and taste. These stimuli are screened through the sensory memory (Pappas, 2014) and filtered if the information is worth remembering. The storage stage is comprised of both short and long-term memory. Data in the short-term memory can manage more significant portions of information which can last for about 10 seconds to one minute, according to Pappas (2016). Long-term memory is where data is stored and retrieved as output used to solve complex problems. Individual memories stored in the long-term memory as p...

  By Foretia Sandra epse Atem. Am currently following three weblogs. All sites do have their peculiarities as well as common themes. They all share a central them on ‘learning’. Julian Stodd’s Learning Blog is unique in that it uses different themes such as storytelling, reputation, learning fragments, work, future of work, interpretation, leadership, culture, control, failure, organizational design, change, systems, learning communities, remote just to name a few. Julian shares diverse and new ideas in learning. Julian’s pragmatist view on issues serves as either a starter or catalyst for one to get into a deep-thinking process and look at issues from another perspective. This is a good learning  starting point, shifting from one’s own perspective. In addition, with over 4,000 followers, this site stands to provide additional views on issues as the pool of followers constituted diverse persons sharing different experiences. One can follow this link to Julian Stodd’s blog: ...