Many schools are increasingly using blended learning to free teachers up to spend more time working with students in project-based learning.
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Although universities provide individual and team project-based learning that are still difficult to replicate online, a Masters education can be taken anywhere.
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Open Educational Resources typically go beyond the textbook to incorporate interactive project-based learning methodologies that allow individualized, interactive engagement with subject matter content and personalized assessment of progress.
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Now, as Khan has himself said and the move into computer science demonstrates, the Khan Academy is likely to be a place in the future that actively facilitates games, simulations, and project-based learning.
Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.
The third trend spans both digital learning, and project-based and personalized learning.
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The five-year project will offer online learning, workshops for students and support for physics teachers.
Following the visit of Wat Chaiwatthanaram, the Director General presided the inaugural ceremony of the UNESCO project on restoring flood-affected Community Learning Centres at the Ban Pom community learning centre in Ayutthaya, which provides literacy and lifelong learning services.
Catlett said Qwest Communications, the project's network service provider, was already learning more about high-speed transmission from its work on the project.
The UNESCO-CBD Biodiversity Learning Kit project was also launched.
Jane Lewis, learning co-ordinator on the allotment project at Duffryn Community Link emphasised the importance of children growing their own food.
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Thus, teachers will not only be familiarized with a unique collection of open digital educational resources, but they will also be trained to link them with innovative pedagogical practices, such as using real world learning activities, implementing resource based and project-based approaches.
Professor Stephen Cox, head of the speech processing laboratory at the University of East Anglia and scientific adviser to the project, said the technology was made possible due to advances in machine-learning algorithms.
"The project began as part of a larger project on oral history on the island, " said Bethan Huws-Jones, the lifelong learning co-ordinator on Anglesey.
The introduction of lifelong learning in Uzbekistan was marked with the establishment of ten Community Learning Centres, a project supported by UNESCO within the framework of the Asia-Pacific Programme Education for All (APPEAL).
But the intention is to provide a more multi-dimensional view of educational achievement - and create a databank which will be updated, in a project that Pearson is calling the Learning Curve.
It is also supported by Electronic Arts and the Entertainment Software Association and is a project of Institute of Play, a non-profit design studio that works at the intersection of games and learning.
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However, particular emphasis is placed on action-based learning using the ADIDS model, whereby learners are encouraged to engage in simulated or real project activities that contribute to the overall development of the project.
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