Comments on: What’s a good learning culture?

By: Craig Godbeer

Craig Godbeer — Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:50:15 +0000

I am currently researching my thesis, with regards to what a learning culture should be – best practices, and how is can be developed. Do you know of other sources of information, relating specifically to Learning Cultures, which I could get hold of?

Thanks

By: tze

tze — Wed, 05 Nov 2003 13:06:06 +0000

I think a space to manage one’s research materials is needed. It can be like a blog or small KM system, a systematic organizer for one to store and retrieve relevant info, urls. This of course, can be shared.

By: LionKimbro

LionKimbro — Sat, 20 Sep 2003 12:43:22 +0000

# A space for gurus and beginners to connect (provide mentorship)
# A space for self-expression (blog)
# A space for debate and dialogue (discussion forum/listserv)
# A space to search for archived knowledge
# A space to learn in a structured manner (tutorials)

We have all of this in the wxPython community. (http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/FrontPage)
People aren’t used to the “self-expression” thing, but the rest are pretty firmly entrenched.

By: alison West

alison West — Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:08:55 +0000

Yes I agree but as both traditional tutor and student and distance tutor and student over the years I think it varies immensely according to the subject and why you are doing it. When I did management accountancy I wanted a very efficient and packaged form of learning and certainly did not want to talk to other people about it.
However, doing women’s studies it made a huge difference to have at least some group or face to face tuition. What would be helpful is the emergence of agreement in the educational establishment about what subjects and bits of subject are likely in most cases to be best delivered by which method.
The National Extension College has been running pilots to work out what online learning and support seems to work well and the categorisation you give in terms of spaces would accord with what we have found. Some students don’t like the more informal kind of chat, others do.
All still in flux,
Alison

By: infosophy: socio-technological rendering of information

infosophy: socio-technological rendering of information — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 11:04:11 +0000

What’s a good learning culture?

In What’s a good learning culture? George presents a very informative and interesting personal experience about satisfying information seeking needs. Apart from the fact that "information need" seems to be used interchangeably with/for "…

By: AKMA’s Random Thoughts

AKMA’s Random Thoughts — Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:20:26 +0000

So True

A tremendous proportion of what I do as a teacher derives from my conviction that I’m not such a very important part of the process. I don’t mean to suggest that I don’t lecture, or give assignments, or those other teacherly things; b…

By: teachnology

teachnology — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:52:15 +0000

What’s a good learning culture?

\”Where do you go when you need to learn/know something? Take a course? Google it? Go to the library? Approach a co-worker? The answer to this question provides much insight into how people are coping with high information levels and high knowledge needs.

By: James Farmer's Radio Weblog

James Farmer's Radio Weblog — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:09:22 +0000

Good learning culture

George has some great observations on what might make good learning culture.

By: the Design Experience Weblog

the Design Experience Weblog — Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:40:03 +0000

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