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Universal Self Organized Learning
New learning theories applied!
| We offer a place for hyprid learning – we are building a community of lifelong learners– we evolve into whole brain learners |
Educational goals and standards in our society and institutions are set as high as ever - yet the practice of learning - the ways to reach these goals have not met with great success and demonstrated grave limitations.
Learning today is generally understood and practiced by following prescribed ways of memorization and regurgitation to meet test requirements. Learning is also too often narrowed down to the acquisition of a single set of skills or the pursuit of a specific discipline under exclusion of all other areas of our information and knowledge resources.
We are introducing the concept of universal self organized learning for the practice of deeper and more comprehensive learning. It is facilitated by the active use of larger memory banks in our brain and developed by applying whole brain learning approaches in processing information. It is not a new, rather a re-learning concept.
The universal self-organized learner will revive a mode of learning used innately by everyone in early childhood: The storing of experience and knowledge driven by motivators depending on the learner's imagination - applying a sense of
discovery - rediscovery - curiosity - spontaneity - enthusiasm - creativity.
These motivators as part of the learning process are largely minimized in later years of learning in direct proportion to a diminished use of right brain skills and increased institutional learning demands based on left brain skills. Whole brain learning is fully functioning in the toddler, pre-schooler and beginning grade schooler, on the decline during the end of grade school, highly lacking during middle- and high school, and rarely found in higher and postgraduate education.
Rediscovery of this lost learning dimension enables the learner at any age to cope with today's information overload, organize and link information, and to function in current educational technology environments on a higher level than most traditional learning environments offer or allow. The universal self-organized learner embraces autonomous learning.
