Before christmas i was tasked with carrying out a research and development presentation on a area of my choice that followed the categories set out by the European Youth Award.  I decided to look at smart learning.

 “Smart Learning is about finding new, creative approaches to education and learning. Many high schools and universities report tremendous drop-out rates and a social education-gap remains reality in most countries. Smart Learning innovations may, for example, provide free-access training courses, foster ICT competence, create scientific understanding, support international knowledge exchange, or open up new capacities for scientific research. This also includes tools boosting learners’ motivation to study like infotainment games, platforms for open-access education or other digital solutions for making scientific progress beneficial to all.” – European Youth Award website

I choose Smart learning as i have a personal connection to looking at types of learning as I myself suffer from dyslexia tendencies which can hinder my learning abilities.

I began my research by first looking into detail about the various styles of learning there is these are as follows:

Activist: Open minded and Enthusiastic to put ideas into place

Theorist: Rational and Logical

Reflector: Considers all options, waits for the information

Pragmatist: Motivated to do better

I started my research off personal experience of how sometimes in lectures i can’t keep up with the rate of pace lectures go at in addition to this the sometimes lack of visual information provided during lectures.

I began to look at studies and statistics of which method is the dominant learning styles students have developed and how this relates back to the lecture.

 

Further Development

After a break over christmas i came back to looking at my proposal with a fresh new mindset and realised that by limiting my self to lectures alone i had potentially reduced my final concept by a large amount. So it was at this point i decided to look at seminars and out of contact hour support.