Managing Your Own Learning

By Adelaide B. DavisJames R. DavisAdelaide B Davis, et al.

This guide for independent learning and workplace training presents seven powerful strategies for staying ahead in today's knowledge-based economy.

These days, perpetual learning is an essential professional skill and a vital part of any business. It's important to have effective learning strategies that work for you and your team. This practical guide offers a comprehensive approach to creating a focused philosophy of learning, choosing the best approach to planning programs and activities, and developing appropriate systems for assessing results.

The authors cover seven powerful training strategies: Behavioral, Cognitive, Inquiry, Mental Models, Group Dynamics, Virtual Reality, and Holistic. They provide a detailed description of each, including the learning theory behind it, its strengths and weaknesses, practical examples of the strategy in action, and side-by-side comparisons showing its appropriate uses.

Based on well-researched theories of learning, this book is rich in examples from more than sixty-five worldwide business leaders--including Eastman Kodak, Motorola, SHARP, United Airlines, Norsk Hydro, ABB Atom, Boeing, TELEBRAS, and the U.S. Air Force.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1576750671
• ISBN13: 9781576750674
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Insightful!

Managers and trainers rely on James R. Davis and Adelaide B. Davis' book on training strategies, which the authors now have adapted as a personal self-help guide to learning. Although they touch briefly on underlying learning theories and present examples of learning from diverse academic fields (i.e. psychology, sociology, philosophy and communications), this is primarily a step-by-step manual. It begins with a brief self-assessment, guiding you to examine your strengths and weaknesses and to decide what you want to learn. Then, the authors explain how and when to use each of the seven major approaches to learning: behavioral, cognitive, inquiry, mental models, collaborative, virtual realities and holistic learning. They also suggest the best ways to learn in each category. Their well organized book lists major principles, enumerates rules, and provides a summary of each chapter. We [...] recommend this individually directed manual to those who wish to make the most of the time they spend absorbing new information.

Summary of Learning how to learn

Very systematic approach of teaching learning how to learn.Part one : motivate you to learn "Preparation for learning" Part two : teach you to learn ""Seven ways of learning" Part three : practise your learning "Maximizing Learning"The look and feel are very good. You can find out the editing of the book made you read the book very comfortable.