Learning outcomes
This unit is an introduction to studying the arts and humanities. It takes you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and improve your confidence as an independent learner.
Learning outcomes
Commemoration – remembering and marking your past – makes an important contribution to our sense of community. Written texts, memorials, letters and photographs can all serve to commemorate events, people and values we wish to remember from our past.
Learning outcomes
Does the recruitment and selection process fill you with dread? Discrimination and equal opportunities legislation can make this area feel like a minefield. If you are faced with appointing a new employee, then this unit will provide a straight-forward guide to the process: from writing job descriptions to finally assessing who to appoint.
Learning About the Presidential Management Fellows Program
The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) Program was established to attract candidates into Federal service from a variety of academic disciplines and career paths. This program provides an overview about the PMF Program and application process, including general information for applicants, how to apply, the processes for nomination, assessment, and appointment, and common mistakes when applying. Recruitment, application and nomination information, and resources are available online at www.pmf.
5.1 Selecting and managing your team: Learning objectives
Global Text Project
Learning outcomes
In this unit we will examine a range of Napoleonic imagery by David, Gros and a number of other artists, beginning with comparatively simple single-figure portraits and moving on to elaborate narrative compositions such as Jaffa and Eylau. In so doing, we will have three main aims: to develop your skills of visual analysis, to examine the relationship between art and politics and to introduce you to some of the complex issues involved in interpreting works of art.
An introduction to Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Southampton
An introduction to Technology Enhanced Learning at the University of Southampton - Adam Warren
Keywords:technology enhanced learning
Online Social Networks and Their Impact on Student Expectations of University-Provided Learning Tech
Michael F. Butcher,
Patricia Gibson
Technology has emerged as an increasingly important part of higher education’s learning process. Student success is influenced by a variety of factors; therefore, technology is one aspect that […]
Learning in the 21st century - "Papillon"
Hardyna Vedder
The “ Papillon ” [“Butterfly”] educational concept is a free learning method which grows with knowledge like a living organism, creates, uses, reuses and improves continuesly new things. […]
Learning by Playing Videogames in the Classroom
This is a great article from the Sara Corbett of the NY Times that examines the age old question every die hard gamer has known for years. Author(s):
The evolution of learning technologies throughout history
The NY Times have put together a great interactive timeline of learning technologies from the 'The Horn Book' through to the iPad and everything in between. This is a great little piece of history to share with your students to h
Home Schooling Overview : Different Learning Styles
Teach your children from home; learn about learning styles to consider for homeschooling in this home schooling video from an experienced teacher and education curriculum expert.
Terry Neven, founder and principal of the Sunland Christian School, is the executive director of the National Independent Study Accreditation Council.
Filmmaker: Traci Holsey
Chinese proverb (走马观花）learning activities
1.Present the key vocab. to students 2. after students show good comprehension of the proverb, have them relate to real life situations and make sentences with it.3. Have students act out the story of the proverb
Learning outcomes
What is a person? This unit examines this philosophical question concerning the nature of personhood. You will examine whether a ‘person’ is the same as a ‘human being’, and look at whether it is our free will that in the end defines us as a ‘person’.
ABG Learning Exercise
Online learning exercise that provides the learner with key terminology and an opportunity to explore case-studies to further understanding of acid-base imbalances.
NSF National STEM Education Distributed Learning (NSDL)
The existing NSDL Resource Center will provide collaboration assistance across all projects; undertake strategic partnership development on behalf of projects particularly with respect to non-academic entities; coordinate and, in some cases, perform thematic research and evaluation studies related to the program; synthesize findings across the portfolio; and disseminate findings of the accomplishments of the NSDL program. The NSDL Technical Network Services project operates NSDL's infrastructure
Learning element symbols
Give the students five symbols or so to learn a week. Once they have been introduced to all of them (just the ones you want them to learn), have them practice them and engage in friendly competition by playing Bingo.
Learning outcomes
The unit will examine the Enlightenment. To help understand the nature and scale of the cultural changes of the time, we offer a 'map' of the conceptual territory and the intellectual and cultural climate. We will examine the impact of Enlightenment on a variety of areas including science, religion, the classics, art and nature. Finally, we will examine the forces of change which led from Enlightenment to Romanticism.
Lessons in Learning
Are current approaches to education and development fit for purpose? In his inaugural lecture, Professor Simon McGrath argues that current official policies to education and development are over-simplistic and over-ambitious.
After 20 years of work in Africa, he concludes that developing appropriate approaches for a critical dialogue with those in poverty is prefe
Professor Simon McGrath
Managing teaching and learning: ACE School Management and Leadership (Word and PDF)
This module is about the management of teaching and learning. We begin by exploring the school as a learning organization and promoting a culture of learning and teaching, which is dedicated to constant renewal and improvement. We will also tackle the issue of context, and will look at the ways in which the physical environment of the school impacts on the quality of learning. This leads us into an exploration of the challenges of effectively planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating a
