His initial exposure to the world of adult learning was through the Army Education Corps and the Army Bureau of Current Affairs.
Those benefits from scale will likely be even more pronounced in the world of digital learning, as digital learning platforms can scale in unprecedented ways.
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It is hierarchical bureaucracy that has created a test-driven education system that is hugely expensive yet is not equipping our young people for the world of continuous learning that lies ahead.
But the reward of seeing the world and learning with an exceptional, gifted and very accomplished group of people was second to none.
With the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning are organizing the 2012 World OER Congress.
She said it would be through the "democratisation of education" that change in the world can come about, speaking of the importance of access to learning for all.
The visit to Kyoto also featured the signing of a Cooperation Agreement with Professor Hiroshi Matsumoto, President of Kyoto University, for the establishment of an internship programme to strengthen UNESCO's action -- "through many talented young women and men coming from one of the world's leading institutions of higher learning, a haven for Nobel Prize winners and Fields medallists" said Irina Bokova.
The Frontiers of the Roman Empire UNESCO World Heritage Site has become the focus of a new online art and design learning resource.
Following an announcement last week from Neonode, One Laptop Per Child ("OLPC"), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide every child in the world access to new channels of learning, sharing and self-expression, confirmed today that an exciting new and transformative version of the XO device is currently in development.
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Lawyers for Terry had obtained the injunction a week ago, after learning that the News of the World planned to write about him.
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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In the middle of the 16th century, the number of universities increased "because of the great humanistic learning that was going on and because of the exploration of the New World, " Mr. Long said.
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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.
These maps, which primarily adorned the world's churches and other places of power and learning, succeeded in returning mapping to the dark ages, getting much wrong and gleefully so.
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John Daniel, President and CEO of the Commonwealth of Learning, and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic, COL Consultant, provided an overview of the World OER Congress, the draft OER Declaration and the six worldwide regional Forums leading up to the Congress.
They continue to carry forward the torch of continuous learning and leadership development most notably through either working for some of the best organizations across the world or by starting their own ventures.
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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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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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Actually, one of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10, 000 hours to become world-class at.
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Throughout the year, Partners in Learning hosts a series of professional development events and competitions around the world for teachers and school leaders.
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The Organization thus promotes TVET and skills development for the world of work within a broader framework of lifelong learning.
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.
An educational system that emphasizes this framework prepares students for the world beyond the classroom while embracing an educational method that taps into a more natural method of learning.
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.
We went into more detail on this particular feature in our review of the Flex, but in a nutshell: Easy Experience is essentially a special introductory launcher that helps first-time smartphone users settle into the whirlwind world of Android without experiencing as drastic a learning curve.
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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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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.
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