Also on the agenda were discussions on the expansion of education centers, developing learning materials and instruction in different languages as well as teachers and facilitators trainings.
Other areas of debate were systems of assessments, monitoring and evaluations and literacy instruction and learning.
Digital learning for the K through 12 market has opened up a world of potential, vastly expanding our chances of truly democratizing access to quality instruction and learning opportunities worldwide.
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Peking opera is transmitted largely through master-student training with trainees learning basic skills through oral instruction, observation and imitation.
This is due partly to the weight put on religious instruction and partly to the emphasis on rote learning.
Some classrooms follow a fairly strict applied behavioral analysis methodology, which tends to put a strong emphasis on one-on-one instruction, using rewards and punishments to spur learning and measuring incremental progress.
Internet-based initiatives from Khan Academy to MITx are poised to give greater access, very possibly altering the nature of education in some ways, but concurrently fueling interest for US education in general and the deep, interactive learning that only on-campus instruction can provide not to mention the unmatched networking opportunities of physical universities.
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In addition to providing a dedicated student entry, the William Fox Amphitheater for student orientation and an Internet reading room, the Education Center will offer high-tech, hands-on instruction through a digital learning suite, comprised of two media labs and a seminar room, and the Nam June Paik Experimental Production Studio.
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For example, Arum and Roksa find that students who experience more rigorous classroom instruction and have professors with higher expectations generally tend to have larger learning gains.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
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