Archive for May, 2011

A good understanding of Online Bachelor Degree Program

Saturday, May 21st, 2011

For a scholar and working, you’ll enhance your career and have a living by pursuing an online degree program. This is most likely not possible for you to choose to study for a bachelor’s degree, but you can do an online one without disturbing your present schedule of work and rest where you are now. What you need is a PC and broadband access in your home. Wherever you are and in every corner of the United States, you will be doing an online degree program.

Affordable college degree online. Learning in an online college for a degree may cost on average, $ 12,000 each year, but an online program would be cheaper. Costs vary between universities. Before you choose some courses and universities, it is very important you have to finish a little research about costs and programs. In addition, by choosing an online program from an institution in your home country, can save very much money. One example is an online degree from Florida Gulf Coast University tuition fees only, $ 12 410 if you are a resident of Florida and for non-resident, costs more than tripled to $ 45, 902. Some companies also provide educational assistance to their employees. Therefore, before choosing an educational program, ask your employer and see if they provide tuition assistance. Incase level you choose is related to the job, probably better that your boss will give at least a portion of the cost.

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4 Types Of Learning Theory

Monday, May 2nd, 2011

When reviewing the literature of psychology, we will find many learning theories derived from psychology . But in this opportunity will only be put forward only four types of learning theory, namely: (1) the theory of behaviorism, (2) cognitive learning theory

according to Piaget, (3) information processing theory of Gagne, and (4) learning theory gestalt.

1. Behaviorism Theory

Behaviorism theory is one approach to understanding individual behavior. Behaviorism views individuals only in terms of physical phenomena, and ignore the aspects – the mental aspect. In other words, behaviorism does not acknowledge the existence of intelligence, talents, interests and feelings of individuals in a study. Event learn merely reflexes trained in such a way that it becomes a habit that controlled individual.

Some learning resulting from this behaviorism approach, including:

1.     Connectionism ( S-R Bond) by Thorndike.

From the experiments conducted on cats produce,  Thorndike’s laws of learning, including:

a.       Law of Effect, meaning that if a satisfactory response effect, the relationship Stimulus – response will be stronger. Conversely, the effect achieved is not satisfactory response, it also weakened the relationship between stimulus-response.

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