3.8 Evaluating strategy and presenting outcomes By now you will have found out about and sampled different resources for learning and used different ways to learn. But the structured approach used in this section is one of the main resources for developing and improving your other key skills. So how do you know if you have learned? How do you know if you have improved? How do you know if you are meeting the standard for improving your own learning and performance expected of someone doing a course in higher education or using higher
3.1 Introduction to improving own learning and performance This key skill is about helping you understand how you learn; think about how you can improve your own learning and performance, and consider how you might generalise the principles and processes for future learning. You saw in our discussion of ‘A framework for learning’, improving your learning and performance could be considered to be a ‘meta-skill’, that is the skill of learning how to learn. This section, then, is a little different from the other skills sections because im
2.4.1 Keeping a Skills File As you work on your skills development, you are likely to find that you'll need several skill files so that you can keep a helpful frequent record or log of your learning. In this unit such a record is called a Skills File. Building up a Skills File as you go along will help you identify the skills you are using and how you are applying them to different tasks. You can also include your own reflective comments on how you think your work is progressing. The activities associated with each key
Introduction This unit focuses on higher level skills. Skills development is complementary to other learning – it cannot be done in isolation. The higher level skills in this material aim to raise your awareness of the processes of learning and development – other subject-based material must supply the context and motivation for this. Key skills underpin the ability to carry out successfully, and improve on, a wide range of tasks in higher education, employment and wherever there is a continua
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7.3 Monitoring your progress Use your records or logbook to help you present a commentary that includes what you did to: obtain the necessary resources and support from others; allocate/negotiate responsibilities; comply with particular requirements, health and safety, company policy, etc; establish and maintain co-operative working relationships; exchange feedback on progress; resolve problems a
4.7 Am I saying too much? Probably not. The people who worry about this are usually the very people who hold a conference together! There's no time pressure, as there might be in a face-to-face discussion. So, even if one person says a lot, there is still ‘space’ for everyone else. Don't worry unless: over half the messages are from you; and your messages are mainly offering your opinions rather than engaging in dialogue with others. If so
4.6 Not knowing what to say It's perfectly possible to learn from what other people say without contributing anything yourself. After all, at a face-to-face tutorial some people won't say anything, perhaps because they feel shy. Working online means you can't see other people smiling in encouragement, so it can be hard to take the plunge and join in. One good thing about online discussions is that they generally happen over a longer period. This gives you plenty of time to think about what you want to say, and eve
3.2.1 How might you use it? Chat has its limitations for serious discussion, but you may find it helpful to keep in touch with other students. You might ‘meet’ with other students in your group by arranging a time once a week when you can all be online. It can really help to know that there are others out there with problems similar to your own.
3.3 Real time chat Online chat is a means of having a quick written conversation with one or more people who are online at the same time. Compared with email, there's less of a time lag in waiting for a response. Messages are likely to be more spontaneous, and it can be anarchic when several people reply at once.
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3.2.1 Assistive technology We have arranged the information in the following sections by considering the main groups of disability and the technology that they use, although some students may use more than one assistive device and the same assistive device may be used by students with different disabilities. It is important to note here that the descriptions in the following sections are rather general and this hides the wide diversity of impairments, abilities and experiences of disabled people. Grouping the cat
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Learning outcomes By the end of this unit you should be able to: identify the common features shown by tree-dwelling mammals from different groups; show an awareness of the difficulties of classifying primates, especially in relation to the position of the prosimians; give an account of opportunities and challenges encountered by tree-dwelling mammals and of evolved adaptations linked with arboreal life; provide examples of the closeness (and sometimes
8 What makes a successful omnivore? From what has been said already, there's good evidence that the key physical characteristic of the great majority of omnivores is a non-specialist dentition. What about other aspects of their biology? Question: Many omni 6 Grazers and browsers A good deal of the discussion so far has been related to animals that eat leaves in the form of grass and other herbaceous plants, the grazers, but this is not the only type of plant food. Also available as food are the leaves of trees and bushes. These form the diet of the browsers.
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