Being the first fully online institution of higher learning in sub-Saharan Africa, it has given us an opportunity to develop new methods of learning and teaching.
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Another work, Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing your World, speaks of the new realities of the tools, methods of communication and learning of a new generation.
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The third ingredient is educators trained in improved methods of teaching and learning.
What I find encouraging in this report are signs, finally, of a convergence of factors that will enable the new wave of MOOCs to be combined with time-tested methods of competency and prior learning assessments.
The specific objective of this initiative is to diversify literacy and post-literacy programmes in terms of intervention approach, teaching methods, educational aids, sustainability of learning outcomes and the integration of literacy into the process of sustainable development, the prevention of poverty, and the socio-economic integration of beneficiaries.
Training, and especially the trend for greater use of informal learning methods, is driving the workforce enablement groups in HR to hastily ping some social computing tool or technology, and later seek out how it should be integrated with the rest of the company.
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This partnership will test and scale interactive learning methods using a variety of channels, including radio, television, laptops and cellphones.
So the hyper-individual trend is about people learning and applying new methods of choice, efficiency, self-monitoring, data tracking and information-gathering in their everyday lives.
The IA staff pioneered the body of concepts and methods now called organizational learning that enable large organizations to innovate, and to change from being driven by circumstance and managed through compliance, to being characterized by aspiration and deep commitment.
Machine learning methods effectively combine many sources of information to derive predictions of future outcomes from past performance.
All activities within the guide can be adapted to suit different learning methods, whether it is for an internal training session in a news room or for individual learning of reporters who have a personal interest in this issue.
All these methods of assessment are subject to gaming and they all take time away from teaching and learning.
Consider UCLA, the University of California, Los Angeles, a prime candidate for advanced electronic learning methods if ever there was one.
Because of the Internet, education delivery methods and content are evolving more rapidly than ever, dramatically expanding access to learning, while reducing costs.
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But they say that too often they are used without a strong understanding of their power to transform education, and many schools still use technology to support 20th Century teaching methods and learning objectives.
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