Learning About Learning
An A-Z of training and development tools and techniques

Description

Learning about Learning is the essential A-Z guide to the terms, theories, models and concepts used in the field of learning. The author, Samuel Malone, provides a clear and comprehensive guide to more than 400 words and phrases that you will hear bandied about by learning professionals and academics. Everything from Ability to the Zeigarnik effect.

Contents

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Ability Accelerated learning ? Accidental learning ? Accreditation ? Acronyms ? Acrostic ? Acting as if ? Action ? learning ? Action plans ? Activist ? Activity ? based learning (ABL) ? Adult learners ? Advance organiser s? Affirmations ? Age ? Alcohol and learning ? Alphabet system ? Alzheimer?s disease ? Analogies ? Analytical intelligence ? Andragogy?Aptitude test ? Artificial intelligence (AI) ? ASPIRE model ? Assessment centers Association ? Asynchronous learning ? Attention? Attention span ? Attitude ? Audiovisual methods of learning.
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Barriers to learning ? Barriers to memory ? Behavioural objectives ? Behaviourist theory of learning ? Beliefs ? Benchmarking ? Biofeedback ? Biography work ? Biorhythms ? Blended learning ? Bloom?s learning model ? Brain ? Brain and learning ? Brain hemispheres ? Brain LION model ? Brainstorming ? Brain waves ? Breaks as an aid to memory ? Briefing and debriefing ? Business games ? Buzz group.
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CAP model of learning types ? Career anchors ? Career counselling ? Career development ? Case studies ? Categorisation ? Cerebellum ? Cerebrum ? Certification ? Chunking ? CIRO model of evaluation ? Coaching ? Cognitivist theory of learning ? Comfort zones ? Commitment Community of practice ? Competencies ? Comprehension ? Computer-based training (CBT) ? Concentration ? Conference ? Confidence ? Constructivist theory of learning ? Continuous assessment ? Continuous improvement and learning ? Continuous professional development (CPD) ? Co-operative learning ? Corporate university ? Corpus callosum ? CRAMP model of on-the-job learning skills ? Creativity ? Credit Accumulation Transfer Scheme (CATS) ? Criterion-referenced instruction (CRI) ? Critical incident technique ? Crystallised intelligence ? Cues ? Curiosity ? Cybernetic model of learning.
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Deep learning ? Deja vu ? Demonstrations ? De-roling ? Development ? Development centres ? Diagnostic instruments ? Discovery learning ? Distance learning ? Double-loop learning.
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