{"id":233,"date":"2016-11-24T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/?p=233"},"modified":"2016-11-24T11:39:59","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T18:39:59","slug":"how-learning-works-some-fundamentals-that-can-improve-all-communication-learning-research-and-teaching-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/2016\/11\/24\/how-learning-works-some-fundamentals-that-can-improve-all-communication-learning-research-and-teaching-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"How Learning Works:  Some fundamentals that can improve all communication, learning, research and teaching practices."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/files\/2016\/11\/fillbrain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-238 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/files\/2016\/11\/fillbrain-150x150.png\" alt=\"fill brain??\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A one-hour interactive seminar \/ workshop was prepared for graduate students and post-docs &amp; research associates. Our goal; virtually any professional or academic communication involves someone learning something from someone else; maybe even everyone learning something! What fundamentals about how people learn are well established? And &#8211; how can we leverage those basic concepts to improve research, teaching, professional communication and even our own on-going professional development?\u00a0 In this hour, we discussed some fundamental concepts, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Distinguishing novices vs. experts;<\/li>\n<li>Influence of prior knowledge (or lack of it) on learning;<\/li>\n<li>Motivation: can learning happen without it?<\/li>\n<li>Practice and Feedback; a crucial, iterative cycle, but how best to do it?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two files with supporting material are attached to this post:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/files\/2016\/11\/learning-foundations-slides.pdf\">The slides used to drive our discussion<\/a>, and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/files\/2016\/11\/learning-foundations-refs.pdf\">Two page handout<\/a> with space for jotting down notes at 4 points within the hour, plus a preliminary reference list.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>To follow up or ask questions, please contact <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eoas.ubc.ca\/people\/francisjones\">Francis Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A one-hour interactive seminar \/ workshop was prepared for graduate students and post-docs &amp; research associates. Our goal; virtually any professional or academic communication involves someone learning something from someone else; maybe even everyone learning something! What fundamentals about how people learn are well established? And &#8211; how can we leverage those basic concepts to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22035,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22035"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/eoassei\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}