Browsing Archive: May, 2010

Learners' Issues and Problems: Isolation

Posted by Dana on Tuesday, May 11, 2010,

It’s well known that learners in any class will have several adverse issues that can contribute to unsatisfactory and deficit learning. Among these issues, lack of experience and knowledge, isolation and insecurity, lack of confidence, lack of motivations, physical illnesses and mental health problems, disorganization, dependence, time pressure, work overload, financial crisis, social obligations and commitments,etc.
As a matter of fact, anything can be an obstacle including, lack of sleep...

How can we assist students to be able to define and describe...

Posted by Dana on Sunday, May 9, 2010, In : Academic Support

If you randomly ask ten people to define what water is or describe what is water, what do you think their responses and definitions would be? Well, their immediate reaction would be that they know what water is and they might think that you are crazy to ask such a silly question.

Undoubtedly everyone knows what water is and everyone uses water massively in every single day of their life and we all utilize water for various purposes, but still how can someone be able to define terms scient...