Self Help And Education Blog

Different Learning Styles – Online Education, Does it Fit Your Learning Style?

Kinesthetic learners need to be actively involved in the learning process. They need action.

Auditory learners interprets the world by listening to sounds, intonations, rhythms.

Visual learners are attuned to patterns, symbols, colours and visual impressions.

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Intrapersonal learners need group interaction, discussions and presentations.

The interpersonal learner needs leadership within the group setting.

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Take a stroll through any bookstore and notice the number of books devoted to self-improvement. In some cases, this section is greater than any other section within the bookstore. A recent search on Google revealed:

31,700,000 hits on self improvement books
29,000,000 hits on self-improvement articles

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Inventory Overture for the month of January 2007 indicated 10,360 searches for the term self-improvement. If we use this figure and multiply it by 3, this would suggest that over 30,000 searches each month are being conducted on the Internet by individuals seeking some information or specific answers on self-improvement in their quest to master success.

One of the most tried self improvement tips is to shorten your learning curve in the quest to master success. However, what does this really mean?

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Online Education – Bridging the Distance Learning Communication Gap

Teachers of online education classes will often begin each session with a series of exercises designed to bring the class together. Not literally, but figuratively. You may be asked to read and discuss other students’ work online, comment on their forum entries, or other tasks to bring you together as you all get your education online.

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Online Distance Learning Education – Myths Associated With Online Education

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Online learning education is a type of learning done by means of the internet as well as computers. This is the learning system connecting remote learners with their respective learning institutions and resources that are located away from their home. Also, online students would be joined to an instructor or tutor who will educate and guide them all through the whole course.

1. Interactive communication and learning – It is very useful to many groups of learners, especially to minority groups that refer to working communities. Actually, these days, the online learning education is much better than real life education in many cases because of the way they provide interaction between the students and the instructor and tutor.

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Summary- With all of the cutbacks and job loss in the country today, it's hard to maintain a positive attitude. However, as long as you take the time to look into the good side of things and find where good things are happening, you might be able to enjoy optimism. It will be hard, but these tips should help.

Every day, and sometimes every hour, new news stories pop up about who's cutting jobs, where cuts are being made and what it means for the economy. You can't log on to any news or information website or turn on the TV news without hearing or seeing a story about some company, somewhere in the country, cutting jobs. Add that to all the updates about jobless rates and unemployment rising in various cities and states around the U.S. and it can become a very disheartening situation for anyone to live in.

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Why is it that as we progress through our lives, we often get the message that we have something to prove? We believe that we have to be proficient at everything in order to be considered successful. What is it about our ego that causes us to value who we are based on what others think?

Sadly in our society this mindset is very common. Even more concerning is that in the work place environment it is even worse. So often the culture we work in is overly competitive and each person is looking to “get theirs”. We believe we have to continually prove ourselves or do things on our own so we aren’t considered incompetent. We fear that someone else will make us look bad, or worse take our position. Is it our ego? What are we afraid of? Why don’t we help each other?

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Since my mindset is on alternatives-to-education I’ll take “Learning & Freedom” as my topic for this forum and avoid the oxymoron of the other. This gives me two learning/freedom threads, to develop one is the freedom-to-learn ; the other is learning-to-be free.

FREEDOM TO LEARN

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The first type is the one that is commonly known as Standard Mandarin or Chinese which is the official spoken language of the People’s Republic of China and Republic of China (Taiwan). The other type is Mandarin as a dialect which is spoken across northern and south west China.

Any reference to Mandarin usually means Standard Mandarin. Standard Mandarin also varies from Mainland China to the version spoken in Taiwan. They also take on different names to distinguish the different versions. While Standard Mandarin acquires the name “Putonghua” in Mainland China its Taiwanese version is known as “Guoyu”. The only common factor among both the versions is that the phonology is based on the Beijing dialect.

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I first heard the phrase “university-on-wheels” from one of America’s top business speakers – Brian Tracy. What an odd but fascinating concept. He was referring to the value we can get listening to audio books while driving. And guess where I first heard his phrase “university on wheels”? I was driving to work.

When you think about time as a precious and finite resource, most people waste as many as 2 or more hours every single day commuting to work. Most folks are not using their commute time to learn anything. They leave their minds on a sort of autopilot the entire time commuting to work. Many listen to the radio while driving, which is hardly a serious learning environment.

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