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There are four essential features of effective learning:
- wanting
- you must want to learn something - there must be motivation
- doing
- you need to be able to practise, get it wrong and try again
- digesting
- you need to make sense of what you have learned and gain ownership
of it
- feedback
- you need to see the results of what you have done and gather people’s
comments on this
The more we can make the four processes overlap the
better. For example, it’s important to keep on wanting all the time, so
it should always be at the heart of any learning experience. The following
model shows one way to illustrate the relationship between wanting, doing,
digesting and feedback:
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Designing any type of learning programme
is ‘simply’ a matter of developing materials that help your learners
make the most of each stage of the learning process.
Click on each part of the learning model to find out what this
means.
Inspired by Phil Race’s Open Learning Handbook (Kogan
Page).
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