Accelerated Learning Techniques for Adults: An Instructional Design Concept for the Next Decade

This paper focuses on accelerated learning for the adult student as a process and a specific model of techniques. The model focuses on the whole student including the emotional and intellect aspects of learning. Specific techniques are illustrated to incorporate a variety of accelerated teaching methods used to stimulate sight, sound, and hands-on learning. Preparation and delivery methods focus on use of association with the whole brain learning process. Traditional note taking is contracted with the new method of mind maps. Music for accelerated learning is illustrated. The pygmillian effect is incorporated with team work which is the most important new skill. Guided imagery as a instructional method is presented to combine words and images in the learning process

Costing Distance Ed: Experience-Based Practices

To respond creatively to the many new opportunities of distance education, the educational community can benefit from a comprehensive view of the distance learning system.   The Process Model for Program Analysis outlines a five-step process to examine all aspects of the system:  Input, Purpose, Method, Implementation, and Feedback.  Inputs include physical and faculty resources, while assumptions include educational philosophy and culture.  Purpose includes specific objectives and the intended audiences for the program.  Method includes the medium used to convey ideas and the process used to put them together including expenditures.  Implementation combines purpose, method, and estimated costs to conduct the actual program.  Feedback includes follow-up with students and the community, cost-benefit analysis, and adaptation based on the research findings

Maximizing the Distance Education Learning Environment: Using Technology for Mind Expansion

Administrators may believe that distance education merely involves taking existing readings, exercises, handouts, and posting them to the Web. Such an approach, while cost-effective, is not effective. A new world of distance education also demands new thinking. How the process is designed, delivered, integrated, and supported are key components to a complete distance education system. The meaningful transition to a-education has just begun. To determine measures of effectiveness and efficiency requires innovations in social and political thought, even more than mere technology. The distance education process requires feedback from the professor, from the student, and from the wider community, especially businesses who hire the graduates. E-learning and higher education are reaching new heights and are changing the functions of the university. E-learning has changed the ground rules of everything including time, distance, and pedagogy. We now have new ways to reach and interact with students, present rich-content in courses, and deliver the technologies of the smart classroom to students wherever they are in the world

Competencies For Managing Unstructured Information In The Knowledge Evolution: A Rocky Mountain Regional Study Of CEO Perspectives

For modern managers to remain competitive in the information age, they must capture and leverage knowledge. An Integrative Model of Knowledge Management can provide a way of visualizing the interrelated elements for an effective knowledge-management system. This original model builds on a Rhetorical Process Model of Communication, which considers both objective and subjective elements within human communication. In addition, it clarifies the purpose and method elements at the center for any effective knowledge system.  Knowledge builds relationships among people who are willing to share what they know for the good of the organization. Organizations that fully develop the human potential of their people grow in economic value.  Within the theoretical dimensions of the Model, this study incorporates the preliminary findings from interviews with 429 executives in the Rocky Mountain region

Mentorship Theory And Current Practice: A Study Of Executives In The Greater Denver Region

Mentoring is increasingly seen as a critical skill for modern business. It builds on a team concept that represents a win-win situation for the organization as a whole, for the mentor, and for the mentee.  Mentoring focuses on work-related needs of the company while building the skills of individual employees. Our study incorporates an extensive literature review on best practices in mentoring, along with the results from interviews with 395 business executives in the Denver region. The discussion builds on a series of interviews conducted between 1998 and 2001 with executives who have had served as a mentor for at least one mentee.In examining mentorship theory and practice, we will focus initially on the challenge and expectations of mentoring programs within organizations, and how specific organizations face these issues.  We will next consider the purpose of a mentoring program, looking at the objectives of the organization as well as of the various individual participants. The method for mentorship practice includes program dimensions such as the size, levels of formality, attitudes of those involved, and the various mentorship roles.  Finally, we report how the mentee participants rated their experience

Teaching with Technology in the Modern Classroom: A Learning Systems Model

Rapid advances in technology, an expanding non-traditional student body, and paradigm shifts are profoundly changing education. With Federal initiatives targeting ways to help students, educators feel the pressure to do more teaching with technology. However, educators may tend to adapt a piecemeal approach, without recognizing the wider implications for education as a total system. The Learning Systems Model expands and tailors a process model for teaching that identifies the interrelated components of education at the levels of individual, institution, and the wider society. In particular, elements within the model emphasize the needs of a multicultural and diverse student body, as well as the implications of utilizing technology as a tool in education. The discussion ends with specific teaching skills and techniques to help the educator adapt to the modern classroom

Wireless Technologies For Marketing And Management Professionals

Wireless technology is rapidly expanding market in business. A survey of literature and executives in Colorado indicates extensive use of cell phones predominating in all businesses.  Secondary wireless technology (wireless mouse, LAN, keyboards, PDA) is gradually expanding. The future holds additional expansion in Hot Spots for use away form the home/office environment.  Major concerns with wireless technology involve both security and standardization, which will determine expanded use in the future