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Countries Offer Different Takes to Open Online Learning - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher EducationAcross the globe, governments and other organizations want to offer distance education to citizens, using online systems of free or low-cost courses. In countries like China and India, governments or public universities are backing such efforts. In the Netherlands and other nations, ...
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The Edgeless University: why higher education must embrace technologyTechnology is at the heart of this story of institutional change. Universities are now just one source among many for ideas, knowledge and innovation. That seems to threaten their core position and role, but in this new world of learning and research, there are also great opportunities. The ...
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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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Ready Steady Book on TwitterLink to petition against BBC closing its Russian service: http://petitions.number10.g... BBC wants to get rid of its Russian Service http://tinyurl.com/dlgchq Great blog, wonderful blogger: http://yolacrary.blogspot.com/ RT @ RicRoberts Guardian (UK) on apparently unprovoked attack by ...
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TheOpenUniversity YouTubeThe Open University (OU) is the United Kingdom's only university dedicated to distance learning. We have around 150,000 undergraduate and more than 30,000 postgraduate students. 10,000 of our students have disabilities. The Open University's style of teaching is called supported open learning. ...
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Intelligent YouTube: The Best Smart Video CollectionsThe Library of Congress has just set up shop on YouTube. On this new channel, you’ll find some new and vintage footage. Above, we’re directing your attention to a clip called “Boxing Cats.” It’s from 1894 and was produced by Thomas Edison’s Black Maria film studio in West Orange, New Jersey. In ...
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Open Text BookOpen Text Book is a registry of textbooks (and related materials) which are open — that is free for anyone to use, reuse and redistribute. It is run by the Open Knowledge Foundation.
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Digital inclusion, social impact: a research studyEvery day, UK online centres across England see the impact of their work on the lives of the socially marginalised or disadvantaged people they work with. They see people sending their first email, downloading their first picture or doing their first internet search. Every day they see those ...
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Make childhood betterMost of the obstacles children face today are linked to the belief among adults that the prime duty of the individual is to make the most of their own life, rather than contribute to the good of others. The inquiry report, A Good Childhood, says excessive individualism is causing a range of ...
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Learning to share learning - an exploration of methods to improve and share learningA report prepared for the UK Commission for Health Improvement. March 2003 This report is an illustrated literature review drawing on studies in the fields of education, psychology, organisational learning, personal learning, and participatory approaches to explore understanding of good ...
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