Learrning

Question 1

What are the 4 key principles of Adult Learning

Answer 1

1. Adult Learners like to have autonomy and make their own decisions - try to give learners discretion to choose options, paths, or the topic of their assignments.
2. Encourage Sharing of Experience: You should assume that learners may have relevant experience, and you can invite them to share their experiences; assignments should be broad enough for learners to apply their own experience to it.
3. Make it Relevant and Impactful to Learners’ Lives: You can ask learners to observe, reflect, try out, and apply concepts to a current challenge that they are facing.
4. Keep it Problem-Centered: Keep the assignment focused on an authentic problem of reasonable scope (but allowing for nuance), and be more open-ended on the potential solutions.

Question 2

Why are projects good assignments for learning?

Answer 2

Having learners create projects allows them to engage in more active learning, and focus on solving problems, learning concepts in order to do so, rather than absorbing material in an isolated fashion and develop skills through problem solving and investigation.

Question 3

what are the elements of project-based learning activities?

Answer 3

A problem, challenge, or question.

centred on the learning goals and skill sets that your learner needs to develop.

real-world problems or question that is relevant for your learners, as well as tools and ideologies that you would encounter in the real world.

Freedom of choice.
Students must have the ability to make decisions autonomously throughout the project.

Self- Reflection.
After the project has concluded learners should be able to reflect upon the experience and their inquiry process, as well as the activities involved

Feedback.
Learners must be able to give and receive feedback, including peer-based feedback

Public presentation.
learners should publicly present their findings to their peers or in a public forum.