Towards A Learning State

Author : Ferid Belhaj,Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Ernest John Sergenti,Hoda Assen,Rana Lotfi,Mennatallah Mousa
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781464819254

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Towards a Learning State by Ferid Belhaj,Roberta Gatti,Daniel Lederman,Ernest John Sergenti,Hoda Assen,Rana Lotfi,Mennatallah Mousa Pdf

The MENA region is facing important vulnerabilities, which the current crises—first the pandemic, then the war in Ukraine—have exacerbated. Prices of food and energy are higher, hurting the most vulnerable, and rising interest rates from the global tightening of monetary policy are making debt service more burdensome. Part I explores some of the resulting vulnerabilities for MENA. MENA countries are facing diverging paths for future growth. Oil Exporters have seen windfall increases in state revenues from the rise in hydrocarbon prices, while oil importers face heightened stress and risk—from higher import bills, especially for food and energy, and the depreciation of local currencies in some countries. Part II of this report argues that poor governance, and, in particular, the lack of government transparency and accountability, is at the root of the region’s development failings—including low growth, exclusion of the most disadvantaged and women, and overuse of such precious natural resources as land and water.

Author : Pierluigi Ritrovato
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781586035341

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Towards the Learning Grid by Pierluigi Ritrovato Pdf

Annotation Towards the Learning Grid Advances in Human Learning Services Volume 127 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications Edited by: P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno November 2005, approx. 248 pp., hardcover There is a paradigm shift in informatics in general and in technologies enhancing human learning in particular. The debate between the evolutionaries those that wish to optimize and refine current approaches and the revolutionaries those that support a fundamental change of approach is quite actual. Within the Internet communities, the debate is hidden behind the words semantic WEB versus semantic Grid ; within educational technologists between content/resource centered and conversation centered e-learning, or either between teaching and pedagogy on the one side, and learning and communities of practice on the other. In general, in informatics, the shift from a product-page oriented to a service-conversation oriented view may possibly impact most if not all the foreseen applications, in e-learning, but also in e-science, e-democracy, e-commerce, e-health, etc. Part A of the book is dedicated to Position papers: visions about what to do and why to do it in the next years. The remaining parts (B to D) offer partial answers to how to do it. Part B concerns what we called: Content-centered services, i.e.: a vision of learning systems that privileges knowledge and its structures, standards and their interoperability, storage and retrieval services. The subsequent part C has been called: Holistic services to refer to more mature and integrated solutions that address not only content but more generally the creation and management of human Virtual Communities connected on the Grid in order to offer and consume different services facilitating and enhancing human learning. Finally part D is concerned with new directions in learning services.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264173606

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Towards Lifelong Learning in Hungary by OECD Pdf

This report analyses the obstacles and challenges encountered thus far in adapting a lifelong learning approach to policy making in education and training from pre-school to adult education and retraining in Hungary.

Author : Perc Marland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 133 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136354922

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Towards More Effective Open and Distance Learning Teaching by Perc Marland Pdf

This title examines the implications of personal, practical theories of distance learning for both distance learners and those who prepare distance learning materials. Case studies are used to reinforce and illustrate the arguments.

Author : Chee-Kit Looi,David H. Jonassen,Mitsuru Ikeda
Publisher : IOS Press
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781586035730

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Towards Sustainable and Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences by Chee-Kit Looi,David H. Jonassen,Mitsuru Ikeda Pdf

One of the basic principles that underpin the learning sciences is to improve theories of learning through the design of powerful learning environments that can foster meaningful learning. Learning sciences researchers prefer to research learning in authentic contexts. This book focuses on learning sciences in the Asia-Pacific context.

Author : Dennis Francis,Sechaba Mahlomaholo,Milton Nkoane
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781920383190

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Praxis towards sustainable empowering learning environments in South Africa by Dennis Francis,Sechaba Mahlomaholo,Milton Nkoane Pdf

This collection presents some of the best peer-reviewed papers from a conference with the theme “Creating sustainable empowering learning environments through scholarship of engagement”.

Author : Zehui Zhan,Patrick S. W. Fong,Harrison Hao Yang,Kuen-Yi Lin,Baichang Zhong
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782832510315

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Creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship: the learning science towards higher order abilities by Zehui Zhan,Patrick S. W. Fong,Harrison Hao Yang,Kuen-Yi Lin,Baichang Zhong Pdf

Author : Pedro Isaias,Dirk Ifenthaler,Kinshuk,Demetrios G. Sampson,J. Michael Spector
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781461415381

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Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0 by Pedro Isaias,Dirk Ifenthaler,Kinshuk,Demetrios G. Sampson,J. Michael Spector Pdf

Towards Learning and instruction in Web 3.0, which includes selected expanded papers from CELDA (Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age) 2010 (http://www.celda-conf.org/) addresses the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes, innovative pedagogies, and technology-based educational applications in the digital age. The convergence of these two disciplines continues to increase and in turn, affects the academic and professional spheres in numerous ways. Towards Learning and Instruction in Web 3.0 addresses paradigms such as just-in-time learning, constructivism, student-centered learning and collaborative approaches which have emerged and are being supported by technological advancements such as simulations,virtual reality and multi-agents systems. This volume touches on both technological as well as psychological and pedagogical issues related to the developments of Web 3.0.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264018129

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Co-financing Lifelong Learning Towards a Systemic Approach by OECD Pdf

This book identifies important economic barriers to expanded investment in lifelong learning, describes outlines financial strategies for addressing them, and reviews recent experience with various co-financing schemes. Country-by-country reports are included.

Author : Arjen E.J. Wals
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789086865949

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Social learning towards a sustainable world by Arjen E.J. Wals Pdf

"This comprehensive volume - containing 27 chapters and contributions from six continents - presents and discusses key principles, perspectives, and practices of social learning in the context of sustainability. Social learning is explored from a range of fields challenged by sustainability including: organizational learning, environmental management and corporate social responsibility; multi-stakeholder governance; education, learning and educational psychology; multiple land-use and integrated rural development; and consumerism and critical consumer education. An entire section of the book is devoted to a number of reflective case studies of people, organizations and communities using forms of social learning in moving towards sustainability. 'This book brings together a range of ideas, stories, and discussions about purposeful learning in communities aimed at creating a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. ...The book is designed to expand the network of conversations through which our society can confront various perspectives, discover emerging patterns, and apply learning to a variety of emotional and social contexts.' From the Foreword by Fritjof Capra, co-founder of the Center of Ecoliteracy. 'Joining what is so clear and refreshing in this book with the larger movements toward a critically democratic and activist education that is worthy of its name, is but one step in the struggle for sustainability. But it is an essential step if we are to use the insights that are included in this book.' From the Afterword by Michael Apple, author of 'Educating the ""Right"" Way: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality'."

Author : Peter Jarvis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134254842

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Towards a Comprehensive Theory of Human Learning by Peter Jarvis Pdf

As interest grows in theories of lifelong learning not only across society but also as an area of serious academic study, the need has arisen for a thorough and critical study of the phenomenon. This distillation of the work of renowned writer Peter Jarvis addresses this need, looking at the processes involved in human learning from birth to old age and moving the field on from previous unsystematic and mainly psychological studies. Instead, Jarvis argues that learning is existential, and so its study must be complex and interdisciplinary. The result is a giant step towards building a complete and integrated theory of how humans learn, taking account of existing theories to see if they can be reconciled with a more complex model. Applying his expert analytical approach to this wide-ranging topic, Jarvis looks in detail at: learning in the social context the transformation of experience the outcomes of learning learning and action cognitive theories emotions and learning experiential learning.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264174982

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Understanding the Brain Towards a New Learning Science by OECD Pdf

This book examines how new scientific developments in understanding how the brain works can help educators and educational policy makers develop new and more efficient methods for teaching and developing educational policies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087907389

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VET Boost: Towards a Theory of Professional Competencies by Anonim Pdf

The themes of the different papers in this book are related to five major areas of research. First, the book presents the work on a large-scale assessment in vocational and occupational education and training. Reason was the work of Frank Achtenhagen and his colleagues on the preparation of a VET-PISA which started in 2004 which has now become more and more a concrete program. The contributions to this part of the book contain a project description and profound presentations and discussions of measurement and evaluation problems. It reflects also the work of Achtenhagen with respect to item response theory, measurement and testing. The second part of this book presents a unique endeavour of promoting VET research: The Swiss Federal Office for Professional Education and Technology (OPET) initiated a program of Leading Houses of VET which are dedicated to different important research topics. This program might serve as example for comparable approaches in other countries. The third part highlights central issues of research on learning processes, curriculum theory and the use of technology. Here the work of Achtenhagen on competence-profile modelling, competence measurement and instructional and curriculum designing is touched. The fourth part stresses social and emotional learning as important aspects of VET learning. The fifth part considers the political and institutional dimensions of VET research which have to be taken into account when an international large-scale assessment of VET shall be getting started. Achtenhagen’s work on learning at work, leaning in economics and learning under the conditions of institutional modelling are discussed. The whole book is a collection of central issues around a field that is not yet taken enough into consideration in educational research, but pushed and supported by Frank Achtenhagen: VET research. He belongs to the founding fathers of it, and this is why precisely the book reflects new trends and new concepts with respect to the question “What can we, educational psychologists and educational researchers, learn from a rich and central research field.”

Author : Jos Boys
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136859656

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Towards Creative Learning Spaces by Jos Boys Pdf

This book offers new ways of investigating relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place. It suggests that we need to understand more about the distinctiveness of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education, and what it is that matters about the design of its spaces. Starting from contemporary educational and architectural theories, it suggests alternative conceptual frameworks and methods that can help map the social and spatial practices of education in universities and colleges; so as to enhance the architecture of post-compulsory education.

Author : Marco Kalz,Yasemin Bayyurt,Marcus Specht
Publisher : Springer
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319134161

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Mobile as Mainstream - Towards Future Challenges in Mobile Learning by Marco Kalz,Yasemin Bayyurt,Marcus Specht Pdf

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th World Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning, mLearn 2014, held in Istanbul, Turkey, in November 2014. The 20 revised full papers and 17 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on technologies and interaction; tablets and ebook readers; learning and teaching inside and outside the classroom; learning design and design implications; evaluation and review studies; development and national perspectives; inquiry-based learning and science applications; work-based learning; theory; language learning; learner perspectives.