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A short history of educational reform in FinlandFinland, a democratic welfare state and the northernmost member of the European Union is an example of a nation that has been able to transform its traditional economy into a modern knowledge economy within relatively short period of time. Education has played important role in this process. ...
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Standardized Testing: Who can unlearn all the facts that I’ve learned?Dr Pasi Sahlberg, the lead education specialist at the European Training Foundation (ETF) and an expert in educational policy, believes that the reliance on standardized testing to judge the success of schools in educating students has led to the development of market-driven education ...
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Creating Effective Teaching and Learning Environments. First results From TALISThe challenges facing education systems and teachers continue to intensify. In modern knowledge-based economies, where the demand for high-level skills will continue to grow substantially, the task in many countries is to transform traditional models of schooling, which have been effective at ...
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Compendium of Good Practice Cases of e-learning. Cases selected by Members of the ICT Cluster Europe.The cases collected in this Compendium are examples of good practice in e-learning in Europe. They were all selected by countries participating in the ICT Cluster and Peer Learning Activities managed by Directorate General Education and Culture (DG EAC). In total, 43 cases were selected and described....
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National Open Innovation SystemGrounded on the beliefs of the open innovation, online social networks and web 2.0 we are suggesting a new people-to-people interaction based approach to support the national innovation activities. In order to generate new ideas our National Open Innovation System ( NOIS) is combining two rival ...
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An Empirical Analysis of the Creation, Use and Adoption of Social Computing ApplicationsThe importance of social computing has been acknowledged by European policy makers. It is considered to be a potentially disruptive Information Society development, in which users play an increasingly influential role in the way products and services are shaped and used. This may have important ...
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Active Ageing and the Potential of ICT for LearningLearning plays a key role in ageing societies as it can help to address many of the related challenges and opportunities, such as increasing social and health expenditures, older people's participation and contribution to the economy, re-skilling and up-skilling in the knowledgebased information ...
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Epistemological Foundations for CSCL: A Comparison of Three Models of Innovative Knowledge CommunitiesCSCL is based on the idea that computer applications can scaffold and implement advanced socio-cognitive processes for knowledge sharing and knowledge building. But do we really understand these processes that are supposed to be implemented? This paper will focus on the " epistemological infrastructure...
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Computer Supported Collaborative Learning: A ReviewOne of the basic requirements for education in the future is to prepare learners for participation in a networked, information society in which knowledge will be the most critical resource for social and economic development. Computer-supported collaborative learning - CSCL - is one of the most ...
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