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Informal Workplace Learning: An Exploration of Age Differences in Learning Competence
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Schulz, Melanie; Rosznagel, Christian Stamov – Learning and Instruction, 2010
Informal learning is becoming a standard format in companies' training and development (T&D) activities. It requires a specific learning competence comprising cognitive, metacognitive, and motivational dimensions. In the present study, it was investigated whether learning-competence variables predict success in informal learning. Given the…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Self Efficacy, Age Differences, Business
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Concept-Map Structure on Disorientation, Cognitive Load, and Learning
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Amadieu, Franck; van Gog, Tamara; Paas, Fred; Tricot, Andre; Marine, Claudette – Learning and Instruction, 2009
This study explored the effects of prior knowledge (high vs. low; HPK and LPK) and concept-map structure (hierarchical vs. network; HS and NS) on disorientation, cognitive load, and learning from non-linear documents on "the infection process of a retrograde virus (HIV)". Participants in the study were 24 adults. Overall subjective ratings of…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Concept Mapping, Eye Movements, Prior Learning