In healthcare education where participation is voluntary and success depends on satisfying learner needs, a better understanding of the learners' considerations is a potential tool for increasing attendance.
Consistent with the principles of adult learning theory, a better understanding of the learners' perspective can assist educators in deciding how to implement a simulation curriculum [ 14].
Educators setting an optimal level of challenge must have a deep understanding of the learners' skill set while determining the educational goals ('know your audience').
Consistent with adult learning theory, where adults are viewed as self-directed learners, a better understanding of the learners' perspectives on education can assist educators in designing and implementing a simulation-based procedural curriculum [ 21].
Learner satisfaction was determined by an anonymous, quantitative assessment of each learner for each completed module on accomplishment of learning objectives, organization of the module and satisfaction with the learning experience, as well as by a qualitative analysis of learners' comments to provide more detailed understanding of the learners' experiences.
The instructor is an expert of lecture contents who has the content expertise and can use his/her experience to raise the understanding of learners, while the learners are the participant of knowledge sharing, who are a creator of evidence to present their understanding on what they can grasp and perceive following the lecture.
The RSA teachers utilized their emerging understandings of the learners at RSA to make several adjustments throughout year 1 in order to meet the learning and attitudinal realities of their diverse students.
Another reason for such clustering of the patterns of feedback into main categories is to obtain an understanding of whether the learners as reported in previous studies engage highly in the task of peer review, the procedure itself or social aspects and whether their feedback exchanges targets global issues or local issues of written texts in peer review of writing.
If those preconceptions are misconceptions, which they so often are, teachers need knowledge of the strategies most likely to be fruitful in reorganizing the understanding of learners, because those learners are unlikely to appear before them as blank slates" (pp. 9 10).
