Adult Learning: Implications for Teaching in Social Work Education

Coulshed, Veronica

doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjsw.a055937

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“…Lowland development technologies like Smart-valleys need to be mastered by farmers through an appropriate learning-by-doing process for technology know-how acquisition facilitating its adoption. Combining practical demonstrations to oral trainings in technology transfer process is always more effective, mainly in transferring information and knowledge of practical technologies like Smart-valleys (Bonwell and Eison, 1991; Coulshed, 1993; Dhehibi et al, 2020). According to Miller and Boud (1996), experience is indispensable for learning to occur.…”

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Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa

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This paper identifies some ways to effectively transfer complex and gender-biased technology information and knowledge (TIK) to both men and women by analyzing the diffusion of Smart-valleys technology in West-Africa. ANOVA and Fisher's exact tests were applied to data collected from 1120 lowland rice farmers in West Africa. Results confirm the general gender inequality in TIK communication with male farmers having more access to Smart-valleys TIK than female lowland farmers. Only few female communicators were used in Smart-valleys TIK transfer even if they were found to be as efficient as men at communicating and teaching. However, opposite results obtained in Togo in particular reveal that it is possible to ensure gender equality in agricultural TIK communication, even in case of complex and gender-bias technologies, if specific gender mainstreaming and gender equity actions are undertaken during technology diffusion. Women-to-women communication improved female farmers access to Smart-valleys TIK confirming that involving female communicators will reduce gender inequality in TIK diffusion. On-farm demonstration was identified as the most effective approach, not only in Smart-valleys TIK communication, but also in ensuring gender equity in access of both male and female farmers to the TIK. Therefore, on-farm demonstration combined with oral explanations should be adopted as the main approach in complex and gender-biased technologies diffusion in general, and in Smart-valleys diffusion in particular.

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Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa

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“…Furthermore, Salama et al [14,15], Bonwell [18], Coulshed [19], and Felder [20] concur that listening to lectures and extracting knowledge from them may become more complex, particularly in distance learning settings. This could explain why theoretical tasks have a higher logit value than practical task value results.…”

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“…When we think of active learning, we envision instructional tasks that require students to perform duties while also thinking about them [17]. The dynamic learning model distinguishes itself from other learning models by emphasizing experience rather than merely listening as a means of knowledge acquisition [18][19][20]. Experience is the main factor in all learning, according to Boud and Miller [21], and it cannot be bypassed for learning to occur [17].…”

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Establishing the Theoretical Constructs for e-Learning in Applied Architecture Programs

Muhsen

2024

IJIET

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Addressing the challenge of bridging the theory-practice gap in academic programs, particularly in applied disciplines, remains a significant concern for the educational system, even in a theoretical course. This issue is particularly apparent in architectural programs where instructors strive to enhance their course plans by incorporating Applied Based Learning (ABL) tasks that connect theoretical and practical knowledge while emphasizing essential skills. This study assesses how well this strategy works in theoretical classes, even for distance learning. Thus, in the fall semester of 2022, a performance assessment module had been added to the online theoretical course “History of Architecture II,” intended for second-year students. The study compared the learning outcomes of 41 students with relevant objectives through quantitative analysis using the Rasch model and WINSTEPS software as a tool. The study’s findings show that their performance generally improves when students participate in group projects. However, the research also shows that when students participated in applied tasks, their learning ability indicators significantly enhanced, which is a novel approach to teaching architecture. This underscores the need to integrate more educational tasks with practical implications into theoretical courses aligned with architecture as an applied science. The findings can serve as a roadmap to enhance the efficacy of architectural online education.

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“…Active learning focuses on building experience rather than just remembering the theory and for this reason students are engaged in activities in which they have the opportunity to develop their skills actively (Bonwell & Eison, 1991;Coulshed, 1993;Felder & Brent, 2003). Simulation of problem-solving cases and role playing are two keys approaches in active learning (Cash, 1983).…”

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Designing an Email Attack by Analysing the Victim’s Profile. An Alternative Anti-Phishing Training Method

Lappas

Karampelas

2023

eccws

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According to Thomson-Reuters the top cyber threat today is phishing in which people are tricked either to click a malicious link or give out personal information. It’s a fact that 96% of these phishing attacks comes from emails, which amount to more than 3.4 billion daily, as reported by Cisco. Austrian aerospace company FACC, Belgian bank Crelan, Acorn financial services and many other companies were recently fell victims of phishing emails losing millions of dollars. Even if experts provide lists of signs that users should seek in an email in order to understand if it is legitimate or scam, the attackers have elevated the quality of the email messages making them believable and very hard to discern them. In order to respond to this elevated threat, unconventional user training is required, focusing on recognizing a phishing email. Knowing how an attacker thinks and prepares the attack vector against a target, we claim that it will make users more suspicious when they receive one. In this regard, an innovative education intervention (consisted of two phases) was designed and developed. In the first phase, 98 participants were asked to visit an artificial social media profile and prepare a phishing email in order to persuade the victim to click a link. Then, the participants were presented with an innovative guided workflow to prepare a spear phishing email which was based on social media intelligence. In the second phase, they were asked to prepare one more email for the same person applying this time the guided workflow. Comparing the two different emails created, we found that the guided workflow led to the creation of more authentic emails which could potentially trick the victim easier. Based on the theory of active learning, we believe that by teaching users how attackers exploit their personal information in order to develop their attack vectors, it will increase their awareness not only for the typical phishing emails but also for more sophisticated spear phishing attacks.

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Adult Learning: Implications for Teaching in Social Work Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 9 publications

Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa

Gender and access to complex and gender-biased agricultural technology information and knowledge: Evidence from smart-valleys in West Africa

Establishing the Theoretical Constructs for e-Learning in Applied Architecture Programs

Designing an Email Attack by Analysing the Victim’s Profile. An Alternative Anti-Phishing Training Method

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