Unit 3 - Explicit Focus on Learning

At my work right now the idea of using artificial intelligence, simulations in learning, and then evaluating the relationships between the learning platform and the participant, analyzing patterns within their learning has been a heated topic as we are dealing with two different camps – people who are behaviourist learning theory people, believing that repetition is the key to learning, and very much resistant to change; and the second group is the constructionists learning theory people, very much wanting to:

1. Create real world environments to make learning as relevant as possible
2. Solving real world problem
3. Trainer is a coach or facilitator
4. Learning objectives and negotiated not imposed
5. Provide tools and environments that help participants to interpret the perspectives or tasks

I found this journal, Learning analytics in massively multi-user virtual environments and courses interesting as it states that there is an emergence of a new field known as Learning analytics, that seeks, “learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimizing learning and the environments in which it occurs”, the journal continues to state, “This knowledge can be employed for a range of purposes, among which are to allow learners to reflect on their activity and progress in relation to that of others as well as to assist teachers and support staff in predicting, identifying and supporting learners who may require additional attention and intervention”.
I would like to implement at my place of work in the near future, so I may just use some of this for my proposal.