The emphasis now is on encouraging pupils to think for themselves, and to develop flexible learning skills that will enable 60% of 18-30 year olds to be in tertiary education by 2010.
This flexible integration of learning is one of the underlying appeals of distance learning, from Kansas to Kolkata.
Wide-ranging, flexible and broad learning, the kind we encourage in high-school and college, may actually be in tension with the ability to develop finely-honed, controlled, focused expertise in a particular skill, the kind of learning that once routinely took place in human societies.
Delivery modes need to be flexible and maximize new learning technologies.
The winners of the Prize, focused this year on the theme Digital Literacy: Preparing Adult Learners for Lifelong Learning and Flexible Employment, were selected on the recommendation of an international jury.
Alternatively, you could pursue a degree program from an accredited university that offers flexible online and in-classroom learning options to accommodate current work and family obligations.
Among the facility's chief design features on the ground floor is the digital learning suite: a large, flexible space that can be divided into two discrete media labs or function as an open auditorium for up to 100 students, with specially designed mobile computer workstations.
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The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.
Learning the wrong associations between markers and groups, though, would be maladaptive, so a flexible approach to such markers, discarding them when they prove useless, might be expected.
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