What is a learning organization?
This audiotape is linked to Creating People Centred Schools learning guide, but carries debates which could also be used in a free-standing way by anyone interested in school organization and change.
Part 5: Teaching with learning in mind
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and probably re-listening! They are certainly worth the effort.
Part 3.2: What is the difference between everyday learning and school learning?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and probably re-listening! They are certainly worth the effort.
Part 3.1: What is the difference between everyday learning and school learning?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and probably re-listening! They are certainly worth the effort.
SERC Pedagogic Collection-Listening Together: A Cooperative Learning Listening Exercise with Radio F
In this cooperative learning activity, intermediate-level students of French will work in small groups on a language project concerning Alzheimer's Disease and the effect that it has on caregivers. The project begins mainly as a listening activity, with pre-listening, listening and post-listening segments provided by the Radio France Internationale Langue Francaise website. The students will work together to get the general idea of the broadcast and then refine their understanding of a radio bro
ABG Online Learning Activity
An interactive online learning activity for nurses and healthcare personnelKey Words: Blood gases
Anatomy of Learning Activity: "Hot Cross Trios"
This is the anatomy of the lesson that accompanies the project "Hot Cross Trios", a 6th grade lesson plan intended to review basic recorder skills while focusing on ensemble playing.
Please No Posers - Learning to Paraphrase Without Plagiarizing
In this lesson, students explore correct ways to reference information sources and avoid plagiarism by accurately summarizing a New York Times article. They then attempt to insert properly attributed quotations and paraphrases into their summaries. Finally, students write opinion pieces about Internet plagiarism.
Collaborative Learning: Small Group Learning Page
This site contains foundation concepts, research-based techniques, and extensive resources on collaborative learning and group dynamics for large and small classes. The information and "how to" tips are designed to assist instructors in establishing collaborative learning groups.
Access e-learning
A free,online ten-module tutorial that offers information, instructional techniques, and practice labs on how to make the most common needs in distance education accessible for individuals with disabilities, and enhance the usability of online materials for all students.To view a video of the award winning author, go to View Access eLearning - Faculty Development Award Winner 2007 video
The 100 Best (And Free) Online Learning Tools
Here you will find a list of the top OER online learning tools in the following categories: Sharing and Collaborating (MERLOT is listed here), Open Courseware Search Engines, Open Courseware, Online Academic Video Sites, Online Lectures, Online Reference Material, Social Media Tools, Wikis, Online Books and Texts, and Professional Online Education Networks. This site provides a wealth of resources for any educator for use in teaching.
National Service Learning Clearinghouse
This site is designed to provide resources, tips and links to other sites that offer information on service-learning in higher education. The commitment is to keeping the site low-tech (so users with slow connections can have ready access), but will add some graphics over the coming weeks tomake this site even more friendly.
Active Learning with PowerPoint
An online tutorial that suggests ways faculty can use PowerPoint as a medium to support active learning. The tutorial includes sections on active lecturing, active learning strategies and their delivery via PowerPoint, creating and using effective handouts, using PowerPoint to play in-class games, and using PowerPoint for formative assessment.
Change and Uncertainty: The Making or the Breaking of Corporate Learning and Development
This video captures the keynote speech of Clive Shepherd, Fastrak Consulting Ltd., UK. He discusses how training in the workplace has evolved over time.
Campus Technology: ePortfolios: Assessing Student Learning and Program Outcomes
Clayton College and State University’s core mission is to provide superior career-oriented studies that will prepare students to succeed in the world of work in the 21st Century. To help track progress against this mission, the university is using an electronic portfolio management system to assess student learning and program outcomes. This assessment is becoming increasingly important in response to a combination of forces including accreditation guidelines, demands fro
Part 1: Introduction; Socrates dialogue; What is learning?
The audiotape includes interviews and discussions that cover three key questions: What is learning?; Is there a difference between everyday learning and school learning? How do we teach to enable learning?. For the most part of the 84 minutes of recording we listen to the views of experts who provide interesting and valuable insights and debates. These require careful listening, though, and probably re-listening! They are certainly worth the effort.
Distance Education Resources: With An Emphasis onEnglish(college courses taught online)
Over 400 sites for teachers focusing on distance education with an emphasis onEnglish(college courses taught online). Subjects covered include Accessibility MOOs Publisher Sites Assessment E TextsWeb Authoring Courses RetentionBibliographiesElectronic LiteracyOnline EnglishCoursesConferencesInteractive Literature Online Journals
Learning Guide: Unit 8 - Developing a school-based care and support plan.
Unit 8 is a planning unit. The insights gained from the previous units and the activities you completed up to now are building blocks that culminate in a well-considered integrated and coherent strategic plan of care and support for your school. Unit 8 is entirely activity driven and each activity is part of the planning process that results in an informed plan to create a supportive environment in your school and start building it as a centre of care and support.
Learning Guide: Unit 7 - Counselling support for vulnerable learners.
This unit explores the role of the school management team (SMT) in managing a strategy for the school to identify and support vulnerable learners holistically. This strategy will involve teachers at the level of the classroom and will examine a simple system for referring vulnerable learners to the appropriate services for help.
Learning Guide: Unit 6 - School-based aftercare.
In this unit we take a closer look at these initiatives and discuss the different approaches to aftercare that we encountered. We reflect on the role of school management in aftercare initiatives for vulnerable learners and also on how the community and local businesses can be drawn in to support such initiatives. Considering various contexts, we conclude by reflecting on the kind of aftercare support you can provide at your school.
