Individual Learning Demand Concept
Temenoujka Fuller
Cooperative Learning Center
Central Arizona College
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Learning Management	

The Task

Complex task	

Content Sequencing	

Deductive	

Artificial task 	

Transforming	

Student's Personality	

Inductive	

Individual learning vector	

Learning curl

Conforming students	

Students’ personality (OZ), intelligence (length of the vector), knowledge management (OX) and knowledge sequencing (OY) are not independent. They have different domains that we can identify and measure. For example, your survey [Learning Orientation Questionnaire] measures exactly the domain of personality. Also, Eastern countries work in deductive mode (theorems and laws), while the US educational system is more inductive. We can at least consider one inductive/deductive domain and all differences of teaching following from this. Next, learning management might be step-by-step guiding, up to almost no guidance at all, which is mentoring. Between these two modes of management we have indefinite number of possibilities, which form the domain of learning management. 

The spherical presentation of these three domains has the origin at the average of each domain. 

On the picture above, every student has a predisposition to be educated in a certain way – some would like mentoring and deductive education, some would prefer step by step and concrete presentation. Everybody is comfortable with certain teaching method. Students perform well in their personal (natural) mode.

On the other side of the learning equation is the learning task. Each learning task requires certain skills and knowledge body. 

The difference between students learning equilibrium and the task demand is what should be learned, or so-called learning curl. Students perform well when the task is in the area of their personal preferences, but they grow when they challenge themselves to work with uncomfortable, unnatural methods. The challenge is something that makes us fly in the learning space and feel the flow. 

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