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"We now need a new approach to learning—one characterized by a demand-pull rather than the traditional supply-push mode of building up an inventory of knowledge in students’ heads. Demand-pull learning shifts the focus to enabling participation in flows of action, where the focus is both on “learning to be” through enculturation into a practice as well as on collateral learning." John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler
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We care about Social Learning processes and social constructed content to facilitate learning - context, social networks and relations, cultural historical social views are important elements to consider. We will care about thinkers, philosophies, theories, methodologies, tools, praxis and peoples' learning to learn.
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National Institute for Learning Outcomes AssessmentMore Than You Think, Less Than We Need: Learning Outcomes Assessment in American Higher Education October 26, 2009 Contrary to what observers think, findings from a national study released today show that gathering information about what undergraduates learn during their studies is commonplac...
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Random Thoughts: Differences in Rankings of World Class Universities from Two Different SourcesThe table below shows rankings of Educational Institutions worldwide. The first set of rankings are from Times Higher Education based in UK. The second set of rankings are from Academic Ranking of world Universities based in Shanghai, China at Jiao Tong University. Times Higher Education ...
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Times Higher Education - The seven deadly sins of the academyMatthew Reisz and our seven guest contributors lift the lid on the rampant wickedness troubling the sanctity of our hallowed universities When the historian David Starkey left the University of Cambridge in 1972, he told an interviewer that he "knew exactly how an ingrowing toenail felt". There ...
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Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsLearning to talk also changes the way speech sounds are heard, according to a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by scientists at Haskins Laboratories, a Yale-affiliated research laboratory. The findings could have a major impact on improving speech disorders. ...
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University World News - US: New report on learning outcomes assessment - Teaching, Learning, Information Technology ToolsThe study found that most institutions, over and above assigning grades, use multiple approaches to measure what happens to students during college "with accreditation being the primary driver of such assessments". Almost all colleges and universities (92%), use at least one assessment approach ...
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2Researchers unlock the 'sound of learning' by linking sensory and motor systemsDUH. Nice that what we already pretty much intuitively knew is not proven though ...JDP added 5 days ago
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1375 Percent of Oklahoma Students Can't Name the First President - News9.com - Oklahoma City, OK - News, Weather, Video and Sports |This one is hilarious - and btw can I get an American passport? I scored 90% on the test. :)Al Wood added 7 weeks ago
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2German teacher loses battle against pupils' web rankingsConsidering some suppression of student (especially high school) views (posters, etc. - even "off school grounds"!) in the US and other "western democracies", maybe those governments have something to learn from Germany!JDP added 4 months ago
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2Students who get stuck look for computer malfunctionsThis says something about the expected / experienced quality of computer interactions and software. It also and more significantly refutes the lie (a profitable one for selling software!) that educational software can (so far) remove the need for a human teacher.JDP added 5 months ago
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