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Self-Education and Learning

Instructional Design For One

People who develop curriculum (teaching or training materials) often follow the principles of instructional design. I should really say they might follow one of many sets of principles because there are various models that guide how instructional designers pursue their craft. One of the most prevalent models is referred to as ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Develop, […]

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Self-Education Is Not Done Alone

I could have easily titled this post “Why the word self-education is misleading and why I will continue to use it,” but I went for brevity. The point of this post is that in spite of my vehement belief that we need to move more of our educational effort focus to self-education and all its […]

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Why Self-Education? – The Changing Workplace

Modern job requirements, along with the accelerating pace at which we now live, necessitate constantly updated information and skills. The workplace of today isn’t the workplace of a decade or two ago. Things change quickly now. Unless a worker develops the ability to continually self-educate to keep up with new information, technologies and skills, their […]

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Feeling Accepted

Recently I watched for a second time a fun movie, Accepted. For those unfamiliar with it, the premise of the movie is a young man graduating high school gets rejected by every college he applies to and his parents don’t take it well. In desperation he cleverly creates a fake college with some friends and…well, I […]

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Reviving the Liberal Arts

Since the focus of much of my writing is self-education, some might think I am entirely antagonistic to formal education. Not true. In fact, I know formal education has its rightful place alongside informal education (self-education), although I do feel the shift must move significantly more towards the informal. Higher education institutions however must rethink […]

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The Magic “How To” Search

Want to find a wealth of information about how to learn just about anything? Typing in just two simple search phrases into your favorite search engine will produce an astounding number of learning resources. The two phrases are “how to” and “how to learn”. Give it a try. As I’m writing this, if I search […]

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Education Crisis – A Proposal For Change

In a 2009 San Francisco Chronicle (my local newspaper) article it was reported that due to the state budget crisis at the time the entire California State University (CSU) system of 23 campuses would not accept any new students for its upcoming spring semester. Typically, about 35,000 students enroll in the CSU system each spring. […]

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