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Emerald | Industrial and Commercial Training | Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training
Emerald | Industrial and Commercial Training | Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training
Research comparing training spaced over multiple weeks versus an intense burst of training in two days. Not a controlled study, but promising results for spaced learning.
<em>Purpose</em> – <it>The purpose of this paper is to compare the impact of a long-term (13-week, spaced learning) with a short-term (two-day, block intensive) coaching skills training programme on participants' coaching skills and emotional intelligence.</it>
<em>Findings</em> – <it>Participation in the 13-week training course was associated with increases in both goal-focused coaching skills and emotional intelligence, whereas the two-day block intensive training was associated with increased goal-focused coaching skills, but not emotional intelligence. Further, the magnitude of the increase in goal-focused coaching skills was less for the two-day programme than for the 13-week programme.</it>
·emeraldinsight.com·
Emerald | Industrial and Commercial Training | Enhancing coaching skills and emotional intelligence through training
Learning Benefits of On-Line Spaced Education Persist for 2 Years
Learning Benefits of On-Line Spaced Education Persist for 2 Years
Summary of follow-up research on online spaced education with medical residents showing that the benefits could still be detected 2 years later.
On-line spaced education can generate improvements in learning that are retained 2 years later. Although the effect size is modest, the persistence of detectable knowledge differences between educational interventions after such a long duration is exceedingly unusual.
·jurology.com·
Learning Benefits of On-Line Spaced Education Persist for 2 Years
Social Networks in Action - Learning Networks @ UOW
Social Networks in Action - Learning Networks @ UOW
Tool to analyze forum conversations in an LMS, create network diagrams, and identify behavior patterns.
SNAPP uses information on who posted and replied to whom, and what major discussions were about, and how expansive they were, to analyse the interactions of a forum and display it in a Social Network Diagram.
·research.uow.edu.au·
Social Networks in Action - Learning Networks @ UOW
Insights New Perspectives Blog Reconnecting the Virtual Team
Insights New Perspectives Blog Reconnecting the Virtual Team
Guiding principles for improving effectiveness for virtual team, following a model with four pillars: Climate, Process, Focus, and Flow.
When it comes to creating an effective team, cohesion is far more important than co-location.
Virtual meeting and collaboration tools can be a great servant, but not a great master. Rather than letting technology dictate processes, a virtual team should aim to take effective face-to-face working practices and adapt them to work virtually.
A shared vision, which is understood by all team members, acts as an anchor for decision making. Each team member’s responsibilities should be in service of the collective purpose.
A virtual environment should support relationship development, not simply communication.
·insights.com·
Insights New Perspectives Blog Reconnecting the Virtual Team
eLearn: Opinions - Better Design Doesn't Take Longer!
eLearn: Opinions - Better Design Doesn't Take Longer!
A boring introduction to e-learning takes just as long to write as one that tells learners WIIFM. I think scenario-based assessments do take longer to write than traditional forced choice answers, but overall, the idea is right. After the initial transition period, better design doesn't have to take much longer than crappy learning design built for regurgitation.
·elearnmag.org·
eLearn: Opinions - Better Design Doesn't Take Longer!
NCVER - E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice
NCVER - E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice
Lengthy study from 2005 comparing how e-learning is used in Australia and Korea, finding some similar concerns. Like most other studies, this one has found that e-learning "cannnot on its own guarantee successful learning outcomes for students. The way in which the teacher and the learner utilise the technology continues to be important."
·ncver.edu.au·
NCVER - E-learning in Australia and Korea: Learning from practice
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Learning in the Social Web: Online Teaching and Learning 2.0
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Learning in the Social Web: Online Teaching and Learning 2.0
Presentation on teaching online with VoiceThread & Ning, including survey results with learner perspectives on how these tools helped create a sense of community
·mpbreflections.blogspot.com·
21st Century Teaching and Learning: Learning in the Social Web: Online Teaching and Learning 2.0