Like the legal intern delivering coffee and learning what it takes to be a good lawyer, their most significant impact in the role is not achieved in a short time, but rather in avoiding being too much of a distraction in the short-term and learning how to have a real impact in the long run.
The term "service learning" has emerged to describe programs that build community service into the school curriculum, thus combining active engagement in meeting social needs with academic reflection on the experience.
Hackers try to build the best services over the long term by quickly releasing and learning from smaller iterations rather than trying to get everything right all at once.
Automatic learning, the technical term for this idea, has been a longtime dream of the cyberpunk set.
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We are learning that long-term productive success requires leisure.
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Targacept's pill is more refined, he says, because it binds with a subtype of neuronal nicotinic receptor situated mostly in parts of the brain that process sensory information and aid in learning and short-term memory.
Cyber Monday is a marketing term created in 2005 by online retailers after learning that online shopping activity increased the Monday following Black Friday.
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Now the attention turns to Cyber Monday (tomorrow), a marketing term created in 2005 by online retailers after learning that online shopping activity increased the Monday following Black Friday.
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Not only are these games boring, they also seem to ignore the plethora of studies that have shown that over reliance on extrinsic motivations in learning can have negative long-term effects.
Short-term goals: These ought to be a series of frugal experiments that generate learning the start-up can use to adjust what it does on the way to its long-term goal.
Access to stimulating activities appeared to block the harmful effects of oligomers on the cellular mechanisms underlying learning and memory, called long-term potentiation (LTP), researchers said.
However, Dr Neil Stanley, of the University of Surrey, said sleep loss harmed spatial learning, although the brain could rise to the "spatial learning" challenge in the short-term it would struggle eventually.
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Our brains move known causal patterns to long-term storage so that our attention can be devoted to learning new things.
Instead of transcripts and term papers, you will have a documentation of student learning in the form of Lean Startup model collateral.
To be sure, more than 6 million students in the U.S. are now taking at least one course online, and 65 percent of higher education institutions say online learning is a critical part of their long-term strategy, according to a 2011 report from the Babson Survey Research Group .
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The majority of the online learning courses out there are not adaptive, as the term should be properly understood.
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Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can be thought of as a process of learning how to make decisions that consider the long-term future of the economy, ecology and equity of all communities.
Recommendations to "transform the culture of learning" across the county, include the long-term partnership with a London borough, routine collaboration across and beyond Suffolk, setting up a Suffolk Partnership for Excellence in Learning.
For instance, when analysts began to report that university endowments performed better with a focus on longer term asset classes (the David Swensen approach), fund allocations followed the learning.
As Khan explained how his team is setting up its network, it reminded me that those who are discounting the long-term value of entities such as the Khan Academy and Knewton, an adaptive learning platform, may be making a significant mistake, as both are positioning themselves to make a run at being the learning platform of the future.
Cheviot View in Longbenton provides overnight and short-term stays for children with behavioural needs while Castledene in South Gosforth caters for adults with learning difficulties.
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So to retain talent in the long-term, organizations need to find varied ways of tapping into an individual's enthusiasm for learning.
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