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orientation to learning environment

 
STOP - LISTEN! This website is DIFFERENT! We are addressing the online learner: 
  • The purpose of most websites is primarily to obtain information: be prepared to expand this customary use!  Our website is based on new learning theories.
  • Visit this site with some scheduled time on hand: to get the feel of a new online learning environment.
  • Explore and discover: to grasp the idea of a new learning space!  Visit our theatre exercises and communication spaces.
  • Use information as part of a larger concept: to learn in depth and with satisfaction. Use your multiple intelligences.

Website visitors have the habit of scanning quickly for immediate or pertinent information. This is not the intent of this site. It is designed for you to stay a while and find out that the computer screen can become a vital part of a new learning environment without losing essentials of face-to-face learning in classrooms or lecture halls. But it needs your willingness to try out and contribute to this new learning space.

Online learning is moving steadily forward in defining our modes of learning in the 21st century. Using our learning space will enable you to become an active participant in understanding and shaping present developments determining our future.

learning environment space

Spaces are visited and often re-visited like a library, lab or museum. Our site’s structure creates a three-dimensional learning space by going beyond the perception of the two-dimensional page just
carrying information.

The perception of a website facilitating a space versus a page for scanning information is vital for the creation of an online learning environment.

When the screen transcends its limited role as information transmitter and turns into a space for the learner’s mind to reflect, work out problems, and pursue new ideas, we will have transitioned to a truly new learning environment.
 
learning, information sharing space

The impulses from your computer – information, learning tasks, discussions - interacting with the impulses of your brain – stimulation, thinking, imagining and creating - are the nucleus of your learning environment. Your learning space is essentially a mental space that is mobile and adaptable, as long as the learner is solidly anchored in the working circuits between input and output. It's the 21st century application of brain-based learning.

Anchoring in this process is extremely important. Our learning approach relies on the learner’s concentration and imagination. The beginning online learner might find it helpful to designate a physical space for support in developing this learning discipline.

Information access is only the initial part of the learning process, the crucial part is the way we work with information and what new ideas or insights are being generated.

cristalla.com is providing the anchor by helping you to work with information, following four basic rules:

• organize information
• communicate about information
• develop understanding of information
• share your ideas

As technologies improve and will be applied, the reality of the created learning space increases.

Moving within a learning space is a different practice from the quick “anywhere – anytime” communication and information access so much praised in our new telecommunications world.

Moving within a learning space means being able to screen out disturbing stimuli, and focus on a learning process for deeper understanding anywhere – anytime.

Once this process is learned you will be rewarded with great joy and freedom – so, put some effort and imagination into creating your own learning environment.

 


Our space is extensive, our philosophy practice-oriented, our technologies hand-picked, our teaching/learning approach customized, and our information sources selective and linked to larger resources.

In your own interest familiarize yourself with cristalla.com’s services!

• Philosophy – reading the one-page content of each crystal and Crystal Connections will provide you with an overview of our vision, mission and intent.

• Technologies/Navigation – using each icon of the toolbar will enable you to move throughout the spaces with comfort and skill.

• Development of online learning spaces – using specifically selected technologies and our outsourcing services allows for development of affordable customized learning spaces.

• Learning/teaching approach – learner-based! We are on your side, concerned with your thoughts, skills, insights and creativity. All approaches in presenting pathways to information and exercises are geared to assist the use of your whole brain.

Familiarity sponsors confidence: navigate, experiment, get to know your screen space.
 


mentors for collaborative learning Online learning depends on a well-designed system of communication. You will find feedback invitations, multiple communication features to use during courses and seminars, as well as scheduled voice mail opportunities.

Your mentors are the key persons to facilitate and coordinate the communication needs of learners and visitors. They are available to you – ask questions, provide feedback and share your insights!
 
learning center

The heart of cristalla.com is the Learning Center. What you read about in the other crystals and Crystal Connections is put into practice in the Learning Center. The real online learning experience happens here.

Challenge yourself to use imagination, communication, collaboration in a learning process that is entirely your own and promises accelerated results.
 

Space vs. Page
My own Learning Environment
Familiarization with Screen Space - Play with the Site Brain
Communicate with my Mentor
Understand and use the Learning Center for my Learning


 

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