Weinel's twin brother, Jason, also decided to participate in the project after learning about it from his brother.
Professor Zhang Deming, President of Shanghai TV University, will receive the prize on behalf of his university for its project Turning the Digital Divide into Digital Opportunity: The Project for Building the Digital Lifelong Learning System in Shanghai.
The project for Community Learning Centres (CLCs) in Ayutthaya and in Thailand received funding from the Government of Japan, which was represented at the inauguration by Mr. Seiji Kojima, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the Kingdom of Thailand.
In Pakistan, through the project "Mobile Learning for Teachers" Nokia's Education Delivery application will help UNESCO to enable the delivery of high-quality educational materials to teachers who lack training and resources though mobile phones giving an opportunity to teachers to train themselves on the same level as professionally competent teachers.
The introduction of lifelong learning in Uzbekistan was marked with the establishment of ten Community Learning Centres, a project supported by UNESCO within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Programme Education for All (APPEAL).
Similarly, the Edison Project and Sylvan Learning Center will lose their contracts if their students do not learn.
The project reaches 230 community learning centres in the Shanghai area and addresses the needs for digital literacy of students, lifelong learners, working adults, senior residents and members of the general public from diversified backgrounds.
Ms. Grantham said she found the project to be a learning experience, giving her insights on global marketing and strategy models, and how to quickly attain new market and customer information in a different culture.
The project is aimed at transferring the ECCA Adult Distance Learning System technologies to the DGAEA in order to help it implement the national adult education and training system.
Following the visit of Wat Chaiwatthanaram, the Director General presided the inaugural ceremony of the UNESCO project on restoring flood-affected Community Learning Centres at the Ban Pom community learning centre in Ayutthaya, which provides literacy and lifelong learning services.
Part of the philosophy behind the project is modelled on outdoor learning in Sweden, which aims to encourage independent learning.
The project is something of a learning experience for China Vanke.
As examples of innovation, she cites the "learning mentors" project, in which pupils are given indvidual mentors to help with problems which might be disrupting their learning, such as bullying, truancy or difficulties at home.
Catlett said Qwest Communications, the project's network service provider, was already learning more about high-speed transmission from its work on the project.
In a recent article published by the Canadian Industrial Equipment News, they cited a study completed by ESI International, a project management learning company suggesting that although the majority of organizations value a highly collaborative work environment, less than one out of three organizations actually have a framework in place to facilitate it.
Ian Johnson is a project leader for the Black Country Learning Academy which is among the winners.
As the story said, peer and project learning is being taken up in other South Dakota school districts at least nominally as a way of possibly re-igniting student interest in learning.
The five-year project will offer online learning, workshops for students and support for physics teachers.
To Petraeus and his advisers, however, the project presented a prime example of adaptive learning.
The project is producing open source Collaboration and Learning Environment (CLE) software with the first release in July 2004.
Speirs says the project is having a positive effect on learning.
Open Educational Resources typically go beyond the textbook to incorporate interactive project-based learning methodologies that allow individualized, interactive engagement with subject matter content and personalized assessment of progress.
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The UNESCO-CBD Biodiversity Learning Kit project was also launched.
But the intention is to provide a more multi-dimensional view of educational achievement - and create a databank which will be updated, in a project that Pearson is calling the Learning Curve.
Professor Stephen Cox, head of the speech processing laboratory at the University of East Anglia and scientific adviser to the project, said the technology was made possible due to advances in machine-learning algorithms.
The first members, many of whom are still in the project, joined because they were interested in learning more about how they could help their young children and at the same time develop their own literacy skills.
To date, the project has established a total of 15 intergenerational literacy learning centres in Arua district.
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Jane Lewis, learning co-ordinator on the allotment project at Duffryn Community Link emphasised the importance of children growing their own food.
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The third trend spans both digital learning, and project-based and personalized learning.
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Strong managers construct individualized reward portfolios (a point about with which Lawler and Worley agree, by the way) using elements like learning opportunities, project assignments and organizational network introductions to ensure that each employee has a comprehensive deal customized for his or her personal needs and circumstances.
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