These two states interdependence versus modularity exist on a continuum, but it seems to me that we may be at a crossroads right now in the blended-learning world between the two.
Much more likely it seems in the blended-learning world will be the emergence of a platform like Khan Academy on which lots of users write content that use the standards of the platform, as opposed to forcing a retro-fitting.
Learning from world-renowned experts is a positive feature of learning at Oxford.
One day, when Chinese really get a taste for the juice, maybe the New World will be learning from this really Old World.
Possibly having our schools concentrate more focus on real world learning.
Thus, teachers will not only be familiarized with a unique collection of open digital educational resources, but they will also be trained to link them with innovative pedagogical practices, such as using real world learning activities, implementing resource based and project-based approaches.
It's no secret that America's young students no longer lead the world in learning proficiency or attainment.
Imagine that at last, the healthcare industry might be learning what the business world has known for years.
What would be so terrible about settling down, traveling the world, learning about wines, maybe writing a book?
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His is a world of learning by doing, of enhancing and celebrating diversity and building an environment of trust.
Leaders were getting off their planes here as the world was learning about the outcomes of the elections in Greece.
Those who remain dependent on the traditional unnetworked information-delivery world of learning will manage, if they're lucky, just to survive.
In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more important than simply learning to read and write.
The World Class Learning Academy, which had 30 students when it opened in September, already has 75 enrolled for next year.
But the reward of seeing the world and learning with an exceptional, gifted and very accomplished group of people was second to none.
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.
His Benedictine monks, through great learning, and with great courage preserved the learning of the ancient world, mixed with piety, and used it to lay the foundation of what eventually became Europe.
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Within the next few months, it will become clear whether the western world is learning from the Bosnian experience and aiming for something more ambitious than the mere avoidance of renewed war.
Learning to balance the world of pretty pretty princess with a world of women kick ass and take names adventure was one of the greatest values my family could have instilled in me.
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Its main aim is the connection between the formal and non-formal education by providing paces for multifaceted activities and giving the opportunity to approach issues for sustainable development in the real world, learning the environment, as well as being actively involved and interacting within the communities.
To help speed learning, Mitra has recruited hundreds of "grannies, " volunteers from the United Kingdom, many of them retired teachers, who function more in the role of "grandparents" than teachers, skypeing into learning environments around the world, encouraging students to do their best and praising their achievements.
We need to rethink schools as incubators and producers of vision and progress for the places in which they exist, with students learning through real-world, applied subjects that are contextualized to their own backyard, and families, business, and citizens who contribute to, benefit from, and rally around that engagement.
Part I shows the alarming educational situation in the world to-day, and the great efforts needed to meet basic learning needs as exemplified in the World Declaration on Education for All, the expanded vision of basic education, which came from the World Conference held in Jomtien, Thailand, in 1990.
His initial exposure to the world of adult learning was through the Army Education Corps and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs.
Some focus on tutoring, whereas others specialize in small-group projects or on making the learning relevant to the outside world.
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In a world where digital learning becomes the platform for our education system, however, this whole notion should turn around.
It is her mission to motivate young children, teach them to love learning and to question the world around them.
He will take the reigns of an institution wading into the social media world, still learning and hungry to do things right.
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Any child learning the ways of the world can point this out.
We'd best never stop learning the humbling lessons of World War I.
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