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Teaching crowds : learning and social media
Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). However, while traditional "classroom" learning is by…
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- 9781771990004
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- xv, 353p. : ill.
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- 371.33 DRO t
Garden learning : a study on European botanic gardens' collaborative learning…
"From 2007-2013 the European 7th Framework Program Science in Society (FP7) funded a multitude of formal and informal educational institutions to join forces and engage in alternative ways to teach science—inside and outside the classroom—all over Europe. This book reports on one of these projects named INQUIRE which was developed and implemented to support 14 Botanic Gardens and Natural Hi…
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- 9781909188662
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- vi, 185p. : ill.
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- 370 KAP g
Teaching for excellence and equity : analyzing teacher characteristics, behav…
This open access book examines the interrelationship of national policy, teacher effectiveness, and student outcomes with a specific emphasis on educational equity. Using data from the IEA’s Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) conducted between 1995 and 2015, it investigates grade four and grade eight data to assess trends in key teacher characteristics (experience, …
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- 9783030161514
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- xii, 212p. : ill.
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- 371.26 BUR t
Socioeconomic inequality and educational outcomes : evidence from twenty year…
This open access book focuses on trends in educational inequality using twenty years of grade 8 student data collected from 13 education systems by the IEA’s Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) between 1995 and 2015. While the overall positive association between family socioeconomic status (SES) and student achievement is well documented in the literature, the magnitude of this r…
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- 9783030119911
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- viii, 83p. : ill.
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- 379.26 BRO s
Open and distance education in Australia, Europe and the Americas : national …
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book describes the history, structure and institutions of open and distance education in six countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, the UK and the US. It discusses how open and distance education is evolving in a digital age to reflect the needs and circumstances of national higher education systems in these countries, and explore…
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- 9789811302985
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- vi, 131p.: ill.
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- 371.3 OPE o
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