Purpose: "I can't do online learning". This is a surprisingly common response from professional postgraduate students who have a narrow view of what online learning might comprise. Images of screen-gazing at mega-bytes of text or childish multi-choice quizzes on CD-ROMs have encouraged strange reactionary responses from many otherwise…

This study focuses on the effects of situated learning on students' knowledge acquisition by investigating the influence of individual differences in such learning. Seventy-nine graduates were recruited from an educational department and were assigned to situated learning and traditional learning based on a randomized block design. Results…

This paper presents findings from action research in a conservatoire (the Guildhall School of Music & Drama) which focused on teaching and learning effective breathing in playing the oboe. A range of approaches and techniques emerged from a literature review. These were implemented in practice with oboe students at the Guildhall School, and…

We examined the effects of presentation modality and learning style preference on people's ability to learn and remember unfamiliar melodies and sentences. In Experiment 1, we gauged musicians' and nonmusicians' learning efficiency for meaningful and less meaningful melodies as well as sentences when presented visually or auditorily. In Experiment…

Two experiments explored the possibility that individual differences in working memory capacity (WMC) partially reflect differences in the size of the search set from which items are retrieved. High- and low-WMC individuals were tested in delayed (Experiment 1) and continuous distractor (Experiment 2) free recall with varying list lengths. Across…

Two types of problems similar to those on the Matching Familiar Figures Test were presented to 61 fourth graders. Results indicated that long or short decision time is a consistent trait related to preferred strategy of perceptual analysis, and accuracy depends on compatability between that strategy and specific task requirements. (Author/JMB)

Looks at the various ideas related to learning styles and how they relate to our concepts of schooling. (JOW)

For the past 20 years, discussion of issues of ethnic and cultural differences in counselor supervisory relationships in counselor training programs have been polarized between two schools of thought. One says ethnic knowledge and specific sensitivity is important, while the other says that specific social and anthropologic knowledge is essential.…

Left/right brain research and its implications for teachers of handicapped and nonhandicapped students are highlighted. Medical and psychological research in asymmetry and the related attitudinal changes toward brain functioning are reviewed. Respect for the functioning of each hemisphere and the need for the "teaming" of both are emphasized.…

Words from two distinct content domains were used in a variant of the referential communication task. Undergraduates who were collinear in one content domain were found to communicate more effectively within that domain than those who were not collinear. Collinearity in one domain had no effect on communication accuracy in the other. (Author/RH)

Providing high-quality education for all students is far more complex than placing students of diverse backgrounds in the same classroom. Hawaii's Kamachamcha Early Education Project (KEEP) takes a group-oriented, culturally responsive approach to improving students' academic achievement while preserving characteristics of more traditional…

Storytelling is an effective and efficient learning technology that is not fully appreciated. It is a natural medium that gives people a feeling of shared purpose. It can be a fun and effective way to learn. (JOW)

Contends that overemphasis in literature on distinguishing first- and second-order therapeutic perspectives has produced schism within field of family therapy. Attempts to bridge that schism, using view of language that informs dialectical psychology to construct both-order, and framing of first- and second-order, perspectives. Such framing…

Describes how an adult educator learned to use a diversity of starting points in a learning cycle (doing, observing, relating, applying) to improve his teaching by becoming a more reflective practitioner. (JOW)

Proposes an interactive learning model to serve as a psychological foundation for the field of instructional design theory. Topics include complexity theory, cognitive models of learning, cognitive and affective domains, sensory receptors component (memory) and the effects of external stimuli, affects component, cognitive strategies, and knowledge…