By allowing students to focus their outside-of-class study time on the topics and concepts that are most challenging to them, adaptive learning has been shown to help students study more efficiently, develop greater proficiency and earn better grades.
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"Where schools must close, they are advised to consider what distance learning or self-study arrangements can be made for pupils in year 10-13, in order to minimise disruption to examination courses, " a Welsh government spokesman said.
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Yet learning to clown professionally involved the same intense study that he had put into acrobatics.
According to an International Data Corp. study, the number of college students taking distance learning courses will triple to 2.2 million by 2002, or 15 percent of all higher education students.
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You can participate in live online courses, listen to special guest lectures and study from their online learning center right from the comfort of your home or office.
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Gregory Paull, a researcher at the University of Exeter in the U.K., traveled to Bangladesh in order to study zebrafish in the wild in the hopes of learning more.
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There were no significant differences in performance between the groups at the start of the study yet TRNS was found to improve the speed of learning for both calculation and rote learning tasks.
Our objective was to strengthen the material already being taught, expand into new areas of study and convey to students the connection between what they were learning and the real world.
According to a study by The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, turnout among young voters has dropped by 13 percent between 1972 and 2000.
Connected learning is the effort to explore the added value of distance in our programs of study, with our students acting as agents in wider communities beyond the campus ivy covered gates.
As part of the study, researchers analysed the responses of surveys sent to people with learning disabilities.
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Part III is a more detailed case study illustrating the positive results arising from learning skills, which have led to fruitful, creative, commercial enterprises in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Why is it that after all our ability to study world history and human behavior in the many schools of higher learning that we have that we are so ignorant of the most obvious?
At the same time, social and intellectual activities such as visiting family and friends, reading, playing intellectually stimulating games or learning a new language did nearly nothing to ward off the symptoms of an aging brain, the study said.
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Adaptive learning is a method of education that seeks to personalize learning by using sophisticated algorithmic technology to continually assess students' knowledge, skill and confidence levels and design targeted study paths based on the resulting data to bolster students' understanding in the areas where they need to improve the most.
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