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Friendster was a social networking service originally based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003. [2] [3] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. [4]
Thomas Gordon (March 11, 1918 – August 26, 2002) was an American clinical psychologist and colleague of Carl Rogers.He is widely recognized as a pioneer in teaching communication skills and conflict resolution methods to parents, teachers, leaders, women, youth and salespeople.
The Felder Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) is a type of learning styles based on a two-step process, where the individual first receives the information through an internal or external mean and then processes it. [32] Felder and Silverman discovered five areas that affected learning: [33] Active/Reflective; Visual/Verbal; Sensing/Intuition
The model was used at Gordon Training International by its employee Noel Burch in the 1970s; there it was called the "four stages for learning any new skill". [5] Later the model was frequently attributed to Abraham Maslow , incorrectly since the model does not appear in his major works.
Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn or attempt to learn something together. [1] Unlike individual learning, people engaged in collaborative learning capitalize on one another's resources and skills (asking one another for information, evaluating one another's ideas, monitoring one another's work, etc.).
Yashima called this desire by Japanese to learn English to communicate with the world around them international posture: a general attitude towards the international community that "influences motivation [in learning a second language], which, in turn, predicts proficiency and second language communication confidence" (Yashima, 2002, p. 63).
Frank Dance's helical model of communication was initially published in his 1967 book Human Communication Theory. [161] [162] [163] It is intended as a response to and an improvement over linear and circular models by stressing the dynamic nature of communication and how it changes the participants. Dance sees the fault of linear models as ...
Conversation theory conceptualises learning as being the result of two integrated levels of control: The first level of control is designated by and designates a set of problem-solving procedures which attempt to attain goals or subgoals, whereas the second level of control is designated as and denotes various constructive processes that have ...