Effective Learning - OIBZ1P008B

• Title: Effective Learning
• Form of teaching: seminar
• Guaranteed by: Katedra pedagogiky (41-KPG)
• Faculty: Faculty of Education
• Actual: from 2023
• Duration in semesters: 1
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 2
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Maximum number of enrolled students: unlimited
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Repeated enrollment: 2 / 2 / 3 / 2
• Note: enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Ing. Karolina Duschinská, Ph.D.

Annotation

The course introduces research-proven principles of effective learning. It offers diagnostic tools for learning styles, brings professionally substantiated techniques for improving the learning process. Students are guided to use effective learning techniques in their role as a university student and future teacher.

Last update: Chalupová Veronika, Mgr. (11.03.2024)

Aim of the course

Students

• Explain the structure of memory and the causes of forgetting.

• Give examples of how to improve the process of understanding and remembering.

• Explain individual differences in learning styles.

• Use selected techniques of effective learning in their own study activities.

• Clarify the related professional justifications.

Last update: Chalupová Veronika, Mgr. (11.03.2024)

Literature

Brown, P. C., Roediger, H. L., McDaniel, M. A. (2014). Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning. Harvard University Press.

Buzan, T. (2011). Buzan's Study Skills: Mind Maps, Memory Techniques, Speed Reading. BBC Active.

Cottrell, S. (2019). The Study Skills Handbook. Red Globe Press.

Ludwig, P. (2019). The End of Procrastination: How to stop postponing and live a fulfilled life. Murdoch Books

Schunk, D. H. (2012). Learning theories: an educational perspective (6th ed). Boston: Pearson.

Last update: Kadrnožková Monika, PhDr., Ph.D. (25.10.2020)

Syllabus

1. Effective learning: professional background and information sources.

2. Individual styles of learning and cognition, their diagnosis and importance for learning.

3. Attention and memory, consequences for learning, attention and memory training.

4. Thought scheme and pre-orientation in content, creation of thought representations.

5. Multisensory learning: research, meaning, examples.

6. Experiential learning: theoretical models and their critique, application in practice.

7. Means for memorizing and retrieving information. Techniques for taking notes in teaching. Visualization of curriculum content.

8. Motivation in learning, attribution theory and mindset, application in practice.

9. Psychohygiene of learning, procrastination and time management.

10. Analysis of key competencies of framework educational programs in terms of principles of effective learning.

Last update: Chalupová Veronika, Mgr. (11.03.2024)