Top Research Papers on Learning

Women's Leadership Luncheon brings student leaders together with administrators to share targeted career advice for the 21st-century woman.

This paper describes the 5 year adjustment process followed in one university when formative objective test (OT)-based assessment was introduced into a second level course in order to support the student-centred use of a proprietary CAL package. It then compares the performance and background characteristics of students on two of those years. It finds the OTs identify a different ranking among the students compared to traditional essay-based assessment, that learning styles have an impact upon performance on OTs, finds evidence to suggest that students with low levels of learning styles may be...

Increasing cooperation trends force firms to roll out their strategic management approaches like lean management to their intra- and interorganizational network. Regarding lean management as a people-oriented management approach we argue that a successful roll-out constitutes a learning process comprising the level of individuals (i.e. managers and employees) as one of the most important factors. In this article we aim at recommendations for realizing competitive advantages by an efficient roll-out processes focussing the individual level. Therefore we look at cooperations as social networks. ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine questions concerning service improvement and the possible contribution of action learning as a means of bringing about both personal and organisational development. A second companion paper deals with the facilitation issues in this context (submitted to Leadership in Health Services, December 2007).Design/methodology/approach – This research reports on the experiences of participants on a leadership development programme, who were seeking to effect service improvements in their professional domains. Data were collected via telephone interviews...

Globalization has created new enormous challenges for today’s enterprises. It also presents opportunities, not only threats. The challenge is to succeed in a turbulent business environment where all competitors have similar opportunities, and where customer wants personalized product. The success can be initiated by a continuous cooperation among economies, research institutions and regional administration that goes beyond conventional limits. On the other hand, employees and its competences play a strong role in enterprises survival. Therefore, improving an education approaches for students a...

who has the correct Falkland in mind. This is H. A. Evans, writing on "A Shakespearian Controversy of the Eighteenth Century".4 "As Falkland was one of those present on this occasion, this remarkable scene must have taken place before September, i643, when he fell on the field of Newbury" (p. 465). Evans' statement appears to have been overlooked by later commentators, even those, like Baldwin, who cite him (at I, 70 n.). Yet, Evans' terminus ante quem is not correct, either, for others besides Falkland were participants in the "remarkable scene". A composite list from Gildon and Rowe includes...

The concept of Action Learning Sets (ALS) is explored; the benefits and challenges of ALS are considered; insight into the under-and-post-graduate experience of ALS is provided; the challenge of the transition from face-to-face to virtual ALS is explored.

Personalised learning is now broadly endorsed as a key strategy to improve student curricular engagement and academic attainment, but there is also strong critique of this construct. We review claims made for this approach, as well as concerns about its conceptual coherence and effects on different learner cohorts. Drawing on literature around differentiation of the curriculum, self-regulated learning, and ‘relational agency’ we propose a framework for conceptualising and enacting this construct. We then report on an attempt to introduce personalised learning as one strategy, among several, to...

ABSTRACT This paper seeks to advance the understanding of the complementarity between action learning and lean. Today, this is an underexplored research area, despite the high degree of similarities and syngeneic possibilities between these two research streams. The paper describes an action learning intervention at VELUX, a Danish rooftop manufacturer designed to develop its leaders as lean learning facilitators to cope with the increasing velocity of change stemming from growth, sustainability, and digitalisation agendas. The paper locates the complementary between action learning and lean i...

Today, companies are faced with decreasing profit margins due to economic crisis and global competition. At the same time, in many higher educational institutions, students attend rather unattractive courses by sitting and listening to lecturers teaching ex-cathedra. This paper describes how Lean Learning Academy, an innovative training programme on lean manufacturing, can contribute to the competitiveness of companies, to the employability of employees and students, to the motivation of students, and to the attractiveness of engineering curricula. The training programme can be considered as a...

Within this research it is aimed to determine the effects on the dynamic and static postures during the lesson and training sessions as well as the influence of the school building and the equipment’s biological, physiological and psychological development.

Lean production, also known as the Toyota Production System, is a management model that is being actively taught in academia through active learning methodologies. One such methodology is the use of learning factories to teach Lean concepts. Many Higher Education Institutions are promoting and installing learning factories to teach lean concepts effectively. This paper’s objectives are to discuss lean learning factories (LFF): characterization; importance for managers and organizations; lessons learned; lean learning aspects and general outcomes for life-long learning. To achieve this, the a...

The authors examined business practitioners' preferences for higher education curricula design in general and for what graduates should know about Lean, or waste-reduction efforts. The authors conducted a Web-based survey and found that practitioners are not as concerned about graduates' possessing specific technical skills as they are about them possessing a systems view of organizations and value streams. The survey findings suggest several implications for undergraduate and graduate business school curriculum design, Lean education, and a broader systems approach to professional education.

M-learningis a form ofdistancelearningin that it provides a communication tool( the mobile phone) to bridge the distance between the providing institution and the learners and facilitates 2 -way (synchronous andasynchronous)

The Learnr Web platform under development at the University of Munster bridges the gap within the process of technology enhanced learning by adopting well-known learning paradigms to the digital world.

ABSTRACT Research on policy learning has shown that actors can learn in inadequate modes. To better understand policy learning failures and possible remedies, we ask how and why inadequate learning environments occur and how they can be changed. Building on the varieties of learning approach, we distinguish between perceived and functional actor certification and problem tractability. On this basis, we introduce a typology of learning mode misfits and indicative adjustments and revisit previous case studies from this perspective. We then apply the concept to a case of policy learning in a soci...

PurposeWhy some assembly factories implement a lean program faster than others is an enduring puzzle. We examine the effect of a fundamental characteristic of every assembly factory—its rhythm of production.Design/methodology/approachWe designed a multi-method study and collected data from a leading global equipment manufacturer that launched a lean program across its factory network. We use quantitative data gathered from internal company documents to test our hypothesis that production rhythm affects the pace of lean implementation. We then analyze qualitative data from interviews and factor...

A machine-learning-based tool for the Lean proof assistant that suggests relevant premises for theorems being proved by a user via the suggest_premises tactic, which can be called in an editor while constructing a proof interactively.

EduScrum and Lean Teaching and Learning (LTL) are two student-centred learning approaches where the greatest responsibility for learning is transferred from the teacher to the student. This paper aims to analyse these two approaches, eduScrum and Lean Teaching and Learning (LTL), and propose a set of LTL features that could be adopted by eduScrum and vice-versa to enhance better teaching and learning in higher education. A deep review of the background, description and step-by-step implementation of each of the approaches is explored in the paper. Based on a critical analysis of best practices...

Nowadays, challenges like increasing product varieties or the demographic change, force companies to reinvent their organizational structure frequently. By means of implementing Lean Production Systems (LPS) many firms were able to eliminate unnecessary waste and therefore gradually improve their production processes. However, due the fact that the abovementioned organizational changes can always have a direct impact on the stress level of individuals, knowledge regarding this potentially harmful interrelation is inevitable for a company’s overall productivity. Leaders are of particular import...

Canadian post-secondary institutions are seeking enhanced efficiencies due to ongoing funding shortfalls and expanding teaching, research, and service mandates. These institutions have considered or enacted Lean methodology based on results reported by public service and healthcare organizations worldwide. Lean requires a high level of organizational investment, including an investment in culture, to ensure success. This literature survey highlights linkages between Lean and organizational learning and presents recommendations about how institutions can plan and assess Lean improvement initiat...

Abstract This article offers a brief account of pedagogical pivots necessitated by the challenges of teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss two iterations of a class assignment that emphasized listening in natural spaces, and highlight the student-reported benefits of relaxation, calm, and clarity. Recognizing the need for additional resources to aid with mental and emotional health, we offer this account as a lesson of how we may cultivate spaces conducive to well-being—whether online or in more traditional learning environments.

Today, the globalization of production and strong competition in the automotive industry requires manufacturers to offer their customers a wide range of products of the best quality and at lower prices. In order to accomplish this objective, the production systems must be as flexible and responsive to customer requests as possible and the production flow should be uniform. The usage of the most modern methods, techniques and tools, such as modelling and simulating production flows and Lean manufacturing, in the layout planning, work organization and production management is imperative to such ...

This example in using lean to carefully build a learning environment for staff and management has implications for nursing practice, certainly, but also more generally for lean implementation at large.

Sheryl Sandberg’s book titled ‘Lean in: Women, work and the will to lead’ was published on March 11, 2013 and has since sold approximately 1.6 million copies. In a world where the lack of female advancement to senior positions in organisations has long been a cause for concern, we ask what is it about Sheryl Sandberg’s ‘Lean In’ approach that is resonating with women, and some men, around the world? Further, considering what we already know on barriers and facilitators to women’s advancement, we ask: is there any learning from the Lean-in(g)? The book has generated much comment, and views from...

This paper proposes to use machine learning approaches for modeling and identifying key learning factors in service-learning, and results show that learning factors related to study challenges and interactions have significant positive impacts on students' learning gains.

Fahmi Basa, The Deeper Learning and Its Implication in Islamic Religion Learning, a Study on Deeper Learning: Seven Powerful Strategies for In-Depth and Longer-Lasting Learning by Eric Jensen and LeAnn Nickelsen. Thesis. Yogyakarta: Department of Islamic Religion learning, Faculty of Tarbiya and Teaching, State Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga, 2016. The background of problem of this research is that to know how is the concept of Islamic Religion learning based on the Deeper Learning strategy, for what have been known that Islamic religion learning needs a very work of development t...

This chapter examines successive applications of Tandem Learning, considers how it has proved so versatile and explores the ways in which its core practices – including 50/50 dual language use and error correction by partners – contribute to its effectiveness as an approach to foreign language learning.

This paper presents LearnJS as a simple and flexible platform to teach and learn JavaScript, which instructors can contribute with new exercises and combine them with expositive resources to define specific course activities and instructors can deploy activities in their educational platforms.

This research work not only presents colour based sky detection, but also contributes and benefits the colour based object detection in general.

In this platform, instructors can contribute with new exercises and combine them with expositive resources to define specific course activities, and learners can solve exercises and receive immediate feedback on their solutions through static and dynamic analyzers.

It is concluded that a new wave of hype is emerging round Web 2.0 whereas the reality is that successful current applications of e-learning have become more diverse and there is insufficient focus on the way that learning takes place in organisations.

Abstract M-learning is a form of distance learning in that it provides a communication tool( the mobile phone) to bridge the distance between the providing institution and the learners and facilitates 2-way (synchronous and asynchronous) interactivity between teacher and the learner (McWilliams et al, 2007). M-learning allows the remote teachers to stay in frequent contact with teacher educators, to ask questions and discuss issues as they adapt new teaching practices. This programme has been initiated by Ministry of Education upon requested by ADB, Manila to implement technology based trainin...

It was demonstrated that the trainees and trainers perceived the newly introduced assessments for learning--supervised learning events (SLEs)--as learning tools, however, SLEs were often undertaken with no previous organisation and with no direct observation, regardless of the underlying purposes and methods of the WPBAs.

The Master of Distance Education (MDE) Online Program is an example of a DL program where especially learners who work in the field of DL can find a rewarding environment to cope with competing demands and restrictions.

English is an international language. English is the language of communication in the globalized world, so that almost no country does not learn and use English as the language of international communication. The objective of the research is to designing LeaRy (Learn Vocabulary) for beginner level of English learners. In this research, the researcher used Research and Development (R&D) methods. This research procedure adapts the ADDIE development model which consists of five stages which include analysis, design, development, implementation and evaluation. The researcher used observation and q...

Achieving organisational development through the enhancement of workplace learning is a popular recent strategy advocated in the management and business literatures. Yet what is learned is highly dependent on the workplace context. A lean production/just-in-time manufacturing environment is characterised by extreme time pressures. This paper outlines findings on how action learning was experienced in a manufacturing company employing lean production practices. An action learning program was implemented to foster learning in this company. Using a sociocultural framework, we describe how the pro...

Learning Cell is a significant element in future seamless learning space supported by ubiquitous computing technology, and will probably be the cornerstone in ubiquitous learning.

In the learning society in the era of knowledge-based economy, because of the contradiction between the finiteness of an individual's life span, of his or her learning time in particular, and the infiniteness of the growth in knowledge rennovation,there results in the contradition between the learning time and learning capacity. To make strategies to handle the controdiction and lighten the burden should the common responsibity be shared by many disciplines, and large numbers of attempts have been tried by physiology and psychology,but without achieving much of satisfactory result.Thouch such ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is a first-hand study of lean improvement programs that has led the authors to distinguish two different forms of learning intent: exclusive learning versus inclusive learning. These two forms of learning reflect two different attitudes to learning. With exclusive learning, the executives expect to learn by themselves and then apply this learning to the organization – and then reap the benefits. With inclusive learning, the executives intend to learn with others and from their own learning efforts – and share the benefits. The authors argue that these learni...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of management exposure to external information sources, such as training sessions, plant visits, and conferences, in helping manufacturing organizations achieve lean goals.Design/methodology/approach – A model is proposed highlighting the relationship between various key drivers of lean, external information sources, management commitment to lean, and lean thinking. To empirically test the model, 1,000 surveys were mailed to Canadian manufacturers with 109 usable surveys returned. Analyzing the data using partial least squares, the com...

WHAT IS THIS BOOK ALL ABOUT? W e are concerned with educating people and with helping people learn to educate themselves. We want to help people get better control over the meanings that shape their lives. Educating is powerfully liberating; failures in educating are powerfully oppressive. Wherever educating occurs, in schools and out, we think we can help people get better control over the events of educating, and thus over that part of their lives that is being transformed. “Seek simplicity, but distrust it,” claimed Alfred North Whitehead. We share this view, and desire in seeking simplicit...

It is hoped the exercise will influence and clarify strategies for disseminating the project and the cases in ways that encourage re-usability of the learning designs for role-based learning experiences.

Research on experience spillovers suggests that alliance experience positively influences subsequent acquisition performance because of similarities in managing these two corporate development acti...

Reflections of a trainee, aTrainee and supervisor, and a faculty supervisor on the role of promoting autonomy, relatedness, and competence in motivating learners to learn and teachers to teach are provided.

This paper investigates developing a learning-to-learn capability as a critical success factor for sustainable lean transformation.,This research design is guided by our research question: how can suppliers learn to learn as part of a buyer-led collaborative lean transformation? The authors adopt action learning research to generate actionable knowledge from a lean supplier development initiative over a three-year period.,Drawing on emergent insights from the initiative, the authors find that developing a learning-to-learn capability is a core and critical success factor for lean transformatio...

Drawing upon an empirical qualitative case study of the IT departments of two multinational companies, change management lessons learned for Lean IT implementations are identified, as well as seven characteristics of a corresponding change management approach.

PurposeBeing acquainted with both lean and action learning in theory and in practice, this study finds that the theoretical complementarity of these two research streams has traditionally been underexploited. In this conceptual paper, this study aims to advance the theoretical understanding of lean by exploring the complementarity of lean thinking and action learning leading to a proposed integrated theory of these two research streams. Target audience is the operations management research community.Design/methodology/approachBy deliberately adopting a process of theorising, this paper explore...

The underlying rationale to the approach is developed, the methodological sections of EPCO are presented, and URL is described in more detail, so that learners may simultaneously learn how better to understand more than one language from different family.

Lifelong Learning has been considered as an important milestone of learning society and recognized as an important programme of the Government of India. The country’s economic performance depends critically on access to and the adoption of new technology and improving the skills of the labour force. Open and distance learning (ODL)is playing a vital role in lifelong learning. Effective teaching is vital to give the desired outcomes .Use of tools like internet, Television, mobile phones, print and broadcast media will ensure coverage of the large populace in a vast nation like India.