Digitalisation and Transformation in Education
The digital era has transformed all aspects of our life. It defines how we live, work, travel, socialise, and, what’s more important, it changes the way we learn and educate.
Learning on the fly in Vocational Education.
Much of workplace learning is informal. It is arising out of the day-to-day demands and challenges of the job. Workplace learning includes remedying problems, taking steps to boost quality or…
Learning by Reflecting on Vocational Education.
Learning becomes effective as individuals consider, and re-think, their existing thought and behaviour patterns. Reflection is an integral part of learning. However, reflection alone is insufficient to develop better practice.…
Learning by drafting and sketching in Vocational Education.
Drawing has been the traditional approach to improving spatial visualisation abilities in engineering design. The process of sketching could be applied to the vocational learner. The Pedagogy of Sketching Within…
Learning by Listening, Transcribing and Remembering in Vocational Education.
The idea that learners can learn by listening, transcribing, and remembering, is more akin to the traditional model of teaching – as it is commonly perceived – where the teacher…
Learning by Critical Thinking in Vocational Education.
Critical thinking is the application of appropriate skills and strategies in order to obtain the desired outcome. It involves monitoring thinking processes, checking whether progress is being made towards the…
Learning Through Enquiry in Vocational Education.
Learning through enquiry is a good pedagogical approach. For example, the ‘enquiry’ approach is often used to describe a philosophical approach to developing learners’ thinking, for example in schools where…
Learning by Real-World Problem-Solving in Vocational Education.
Learning by attempting to solve real-world problems can be a highly effective means of developing expertise. Learn PBL from Medical Education ‘Problem-based learning’ (PBL) is an enquiry-based approach to problem-solving…
Learning by Watching in Vocational Education.
Learning how – or how not – to carry out an activity by watching others is a very common way of learning. Taking a cross-cultural perspective on human development, Barbara…