Acknowledgements
Frontline managers are responsible for gathering service user views on their needs. Whose views should be taken into account? How do managers gather views? This unit helps you consider ways of getting feedback from service users, and shows the inclusive approach of a manager of a voluntary sector mental health service.
Author(s): The Open University

Learning outcomes
Frontline managers are responsible for gathering service user views on their needs. Whose views should be taken into account? How do managers gather views? This unit helps you consider ways of getting feedback from service users, and shows the inclusive approach of a manager of a voluntary sector mental health service.
Author(s): The Open University

Students with ambition
Coming to UCL from nearly 140 countries around the world, UCL students share common attributes of creativity and critical thinking. They are prepared to take their subject knowledge into the community, be it to the government or local schools, and enjoy the cultural and social diversity of UCL and London life. http://www.ucl.ac.uk/about-ucl/students-ambition
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Acknowledgements
This unit is intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland but to anyone wishing to know more about Scottish society and culture. It brings together a collection of free educational resources relevant to Scotland. The resources within this unit cover a wide range of subject areas, including education, environment, technology, history, law, literature, politics, social care and social sciences.
Author(s): The Open University

Education in the wild: contextual and location-based mobile learning in action. A report from the ST
A new report has been published by the LSRI/University of Nottingham that gives an essential overview of research into location-based contextual mobile learning primarily across Europe, edited by Elizabeth Brown. The report follows on from a 2-day workshop funded by the STELLAR Network of Excellence as part of their 2009 Alpine Rendez-Vous workshop series. Contributors have provided examples of innovative and exciting research projects and practical applications for mobile learning in a location
Author(s): Brown Elizabeth J

South African Child Gauge 2009/2010
The South African Child Gauge is produced annually by the Children Institute University of Cape Town to monitor government and civil society progress towards realising the rights of children This issue focuses on child health. The South African Child Gauge is divided into three parts: PART ONE Children and law reform. Part one discusses recent legislative developments affecting child health In this issue there is commentary on the Children's Act the Prevention of and Treatment for Substance Abus
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ModCloth Sr. Software Architect Jay Palat
The popular indie fashion site ModCloth - http://www.modcloth.com - was started by Carnegie Mellon alumni while they were students at the university. Jay Palat (HNZ'04), Senior Software Architect for ModCloth, talks about how his Carnegie Mellon and Heinz College education impacts his role at the company. For more, visit: http://www.cmu.edu/homepage/creativity/2009/spring/modern-day-thrifter.shtml
Author(s): No creator set

Learning Content and Interoperability
In the era of Internet and new information and communication technologies one of the most important things is appropriate use of technologies in order to achieve desired results. In present paper, they are compared two case studies – on one hand there they are presented research results about interoperability in two open-source learning environments developed in Sofia University, Bulgaria and, on other hand, there are given results from “South West Wales Interoperability Project”, sponsore
Author(s): Aleksieva Adelina,Petrov Milen,Bontchev Boyan

7.391 Concept-Centered Teaching (MIT)
Do you like teaching, but find yourself frustrated by how little students seem to learn? Would you like to try teaching, but are nervous about whether you will be any good at it? Are you interested in new research on science education? Research in science education shows that the greatest obstacle to student learning is the failure to identify and confront the misconceptions with which the students enter the class or those that they acquire during their studies. This weekly seminar course focuse
Author(s): Kosinski-Collins, Melissa

Internal and external cooperation scripts in web-based collaborative inquiry learning
Cooperation scripts are a powerful means to improve collaborative learning. Scripts can be designed to support argumentative knowledge construction. However, not only externally induced cooperation scripts but also the learners’ internal scripts on argumentative knowledge construction influence argumentative processes and what kind of knowledge is acquired during collaboration. In this study, 98 students (49 dyads) of two German secondary schools participated. We implemented two versions (high
Author(s): Kollar Ingo,Fischer Frank

How people in virtual groups and communities (fail to) interact.
In 4 different research projects taking place in our department, students, teachers, researchers, policymakers and policemen are communicating and interacting through shared electronic work spaces between face to face meetings. The students interact about their studies in pedagogy. The teachers, researchers and policymakers interact about ICT in higher education. The researchers are from different universities all over Europe and interact between meetings about their collaborative research proje
Author(s): Simons Robert-Jan,Admiraal Wilfried,Akkerman Sanne

What do you mean by collaborative learning?
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Author(s): Dillenbourg Pierre

HST.721 The Peripheral Auditory System (MIT)
In this course, experimental approaches to the study of hearing and deafness are presented through lectures, laboratory exercises and discussions of the primary literature on the auditory periphery. Topics include inner-ear development, functional anatomy of the inner ear, cochlear mechanics and micromechanics, mechano-electric transduction by hair cells, outer hair cells' electromotility and the cochlear amplifier, otoacoustic emissions, synaptic transmission, stimulus coding in auditory nerve
Author(s): Liberman, Charlie,Adams, Joe C.

21L.703 Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War (MIT)
This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical exp
Author(s): Henderson, Diana,Sonenberg, Janet

AFFIRM Instructions for Importing Research Methods Question Bank
Instructions for installing AFFIRM Research Methods Question Bank - a collection of 57 Research Methods questions covering 9 topics (Fallacies; Qualitative research; Referencing; Research Design; Sampling; Statistics; Surveys; Miscellaneous). These questions are available as a Blackboard VISTA import file. You need to download the zip files named ‘AFFIRM Research Methods Question Bank’ and ‘AFFIRM_images1’. Please also see ‘AFFIRM Instructions for Importing Research Methods Questions�
Author(s): Jill Taylor,Bob Rotherham,Chris Garbett

Foundations in evidence based practice
This is a module framework. It can be viewed online for downloaded as a zip file. As taught in Spring Semester 2010. This module is taught on the Diploma/BSc in Nursing and covers an introduction to evidence-based practice; the nature of evidence; an introduction to the research process; reflective thinking and writing; portfolio development skills; searching/accessing information/literature; summarising literature; referencing literature sources; reviewing literature; an introduction to law
Author(s): University of Nottingham. School of Nursing Midwif

Care for babies
Learn how to be a caregiver with babies. This project includes understanding babies and their needs, sleeping patterns, distressed babies, separation anxiety, feeding, safety hazards, nappy changing, toilet training and illness.
Author(s): No creator set

Indigenous Spiritual Wellbeing - Assess clients
A learning resource for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health care workers, covering topics such as assessing clients for signs and symptoms of mental disturbance, consulting with health professionals and providing social and emotional support.
Author(s): No creator set