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.
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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As part of the study, researchers analysed the responses of surveys sent to people with learning disabilities.
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As the NMC report shows, 97% of students in a pilot study found the Challenge-Based Learning approach worthwhile, and 80% reported that their work made a difference in their communities.
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 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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The Barnardo's study said the most disadvantaged unemployed 16 and 17-year-olds were seeing their chances of learning new skills to help them find work "rapidly declining".
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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The study partly blamed this on the local council's imposition of learning-by-discovery.
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?
The study design raises a lot of questions, from the reasonableness of assessing learning growth after only three full semesters of college to the reliability of the C.
The move away from modular exams towards those taken mainly at the end of two years of study would ensure there was better focus on teaching and learning and greater depth of study, Mr Gove said.
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.
Looking at education systems that succeed, the study concludes that spending is important, but not as much as having a culture that is supportive of learning.
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.
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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Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
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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