Change drivers and evolving trends in sustainability and government or international regulations are discussed
in classroom settings that made use of e-learning enabled blended learning – for example, Moodle discussion
boards to facilitate the ‘far transfer’ of learning. Far transfer is understood as applying conceptual learning beyond
the original learning contexts so that higher order principles are gleaned, abstracted, and applied in a variety of
seemingly unrelated contexts (Salomon &Perkins, 1989). Far transfer involves metacognitions or reflective thinking
at the higher end of the ‘Cognitive Literacy Value Chain’. Fluid intelligence is more directly involved in far transfer
at this level of the cognitive literacy value chain. Far transfer is part and parcel of fluid intelligence. Far transfer is
effective in mitigating rapid obsolescence in knowledge and skills. ‘Near transfer’ often involves the ‘low road’ of
learning with strategies by rote, pattern or template matching and impacts only a limited range of variability in the
contexts from original learning. Behavioral learning is much like this.