Case Study on delivering a competency-based course about Programmable Logic Controllers

The case study that will be analysed here is my teachingexperience in the subject called Programmable Logic Controllers(PLC). The analyses will be based on the day when myparticipants were most varied. On that day, my participants weremade up of one maintenance supervisor, two new engineeringgraduates, four practicing technicians and two teachers. The firstthree hours ofContinue reading Case Study on delivering a competency-based course about Programmable Logic Controllers

New Professional and Vocational Education : A Critical Annotated Reference

Chapter 2    New Professional and Vocational Education This second chapter of the book by Foley, “The New Professional and Vocational Education“, is contributed by Andrew Gonczi, who had significant involvement in the developments of the technical and vocational education as well as in the formulation of the competency standards in Australia. In this chapter theContinue reading New Professional and Vocational Education : A Critical Annotated Reference

My Experiential Learning Perspective

The worthiness of any activity, among others, depends on the individual experiencing it. One of the gauges to measure experience’s worthiness is whether the person engaged in it learnt from it or not. This handout aims to explain what experiential learning all is about. The emphasis is on how ‘four-stage learning cycle’ works in experience-basedContinue reading My Experiential Learning Perspective