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Global literacy is about change management. Here are some change management resources.

Resistant Learners ....lack a fundamental belief that academic learning and achievement can help them achieve personal goals or initiate positive change. Too often they have suffered repeated, long-term frustration from inappropriate learning situations. A series of unskilled, imperceptive instructors, unfortunate learning experiences, or missed opportunities have deterred resistant learners from enjoying learning. These learners do not believe in or use formal education or academic institutions as positive or enjoyable resources in their life.

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Conforming Learners like routine, structure, supportive relationships, and stability. They generally are more compliant and will more passively accept knowledge, store it, and reproduce it to conform, complete assigned tasks (if they can) and often please and help others. These learners typically prefer to leave the holistic, critical, or analytical thinking to others.

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Performing Learners ...are generally self-motivated in learning situations that particularly interest them, otherwise they may seek extrinsic rewards for accomplishing objectives that appear to have less value or benefit to them. They most often:

* are skilled, sophisticated learners that systematically follow principles, processes, or procedures, think hierarchially, and capably achieve average to above-standard learning objectives, tasks, and performance.
* may sometimes clearly acknowledge meeting only the stated objectives, getting the grade, streamlining learning efforts, and avoiding exploratory steps beyond the requirements of the situation and learning task.

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Transforming Learners ....are generally highly motivated, passionate, often persistent even in the face of failure, and highly comitted learners. They most often:

* place great importance on learning ability, committed effort, independence, vision, and intrinsic resources.
* use personal strengths, ability, persistence, challenging strategies, high-standards, learning efficacy, and positive expectations to self-direct learning successfully.
* lose motivation and may become frustrated or resistant in environments or conditions that mismatch their aggressive learning needs.

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The intentional Learning Orientation Construct (LOC) is a multidimensional representation offering an elaborated view of factors influencing individual learning differences. The neurosciences are helping us be more precise about defining the intentional learning domain and determining competencies. Learning orientations describe an individual's disposition to approach, manage, and achieve learning intentionally and differently from others. The construct identifies key learner-difference variables and serves as an underlying foundation for a successful intentional learning model. The Construct provides measure to assess learning ablity and readiness to learn. Construct verification and validation arguments are  available.

© 2008 John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. Text illustrations ©
2008 Susan E. Haviland. The text of this article is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 43, no. 1 (January/February 2008): 16–32

Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0

John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler

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