Utilizing Learning and Teaching Resources for Effective Learning

Introduction
Clay P. Bedford says that a student will learn a lesson for a day when they are taught,
but if curiosity of learning is taught to them, then they will continue the process of learning
for as long as they might live. He further states that resources are not only the various
teaching materials and the methods used, but also the time that is made available for
instruction, the skills of the teacher and the knowledge that is incurred through the training
process and teaching experience. Learning resources is defined as any individual or material
which may have been acquired or been produced locally, which content or function that is
instructional and can be used for both formal and informal teaching and learning. Learning
resources can include print and non-print materials; audio, visual, electronic and digital
hardware or software resources and human resources. If the learning and teaching resources
are used effectively then it can benefit the students into constructing knowledge on their own
and also develop various effective learning strategies, values, attitudes, generic skills and
hence lays a foundation for a long learning process.
Links to various websites which can provide extra resources of a topic that is being
discussed or creates a platform for student learning can be available via Blackboard.

Aim of utilizing learning and teaching resources
Teachers use various methods to engage the students in the learning of the curriculum which
is outlined for them. The introduction of new technologies and physiological resources can
help the students into realizing their strengths and helping them to get engaged in the process
of learning. The aim of utilizing the learning and teaching resources are:
1. Helps to give economy in speech and time
2. Helps to make the course easy
3. Helps in making the course clear
4. Helps in increasing the motivation and interest of students
5. Helps in simplifying the complex explanations
6. Helps in creating an interest for learning

7. Helps in making the conceptual things clear
8. Helps in enhancing the course
9. Helps in doing practical of subjects (Küçükahmet, Leyla, 1995)
Resource design principles –Pat
Resource design principles helps the students to be clearer in their learning and
teaching (Collins, Brown, and Holum 1991; Bransford, Brown, and Cocking 2000). This
requires the students to be able to talk, write, analyze, report, create, judge and inquire on the
basis of the learning preferences and styles.
These activities helps the teacher, fellow learners and the students to understand the
extent of their knowledge and what queries they might have about the resources that are
available to them.
There are various researches which shows that different learning styles utilizes
different brain parts. Involving more areas of the brain, helps in containing more information.
Hence, resource design will contemplate the brain retaining technology to search the areas of
the brain which is responsible for learning.
For example:

 Visual: The visual sense of the brain is managed by the occipital lobes which are present
at the back. The spatial orientation is handled by both the occipital and parietal lobes.
 Aural: The aural sense is managed by the temporal lobes. The right temporal love is
mandatory for music.
 Verbal: The left hemisphere of the temporal and frontal lobes are called the broadcast
areas.
 Physical: The physical movement is managed by the cerebellum and the motor cortex.
 Logical: The logical thinking is driven by mostly the left side of the parietal lobes.
 Social: The social activity is managed by the frontal and temporal lobes. Both the social
and solitary styles are influenced by the limbic system. The limbic system influences the
emotions, aggression and the moods.
 Solitary: Both the frontal and parietal lobes and the limbic system are involves in this
style.