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Self-directed learning for the 21st century : implications for higher education
This book is devoted to scholarship in the field of self-directed learning in the 21st century, with specific reference to higher education. The target audience of the book includes scholars in the field of self-directed learning and higher education. The book contributes to the discourse on the quality of education in the 21st century and adds to the body of scholarship in terms of self-direct…
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- 9781928396888
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- XXXIII, 436 p.
- Series Title
- NWU Self-directed Learning Series, 1
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- 374 SEL s
Continuity and discontinuity in learning careers : potentials for a learning …
Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World focuses on the continuities and discontinuities of the learning careers and identities of non-traditional adult students in diverse learning contexts. Readership: All those interested in adult education and the challenges facing adult education today such as researchers in education and social …
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- 9789004375475
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- XV, 198 p.
- Series Title
- Research on the Education and Learning of Adults, 6
- Call Number
- 374.94 CON c
Computer science and engineering education for pre-collegiate students and te…
Now more than ever, as a worldwide STEM community, we need to know what pre-collegiate teachers and students explore, learn, and implement in relation to computer science and engineering education. As computer science and engineering education are not always “stand-alone” courses in pre-collegiate schools, how are pre-collegiate teachers and students learning about these topics? How can the…
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- 9783038979418
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- X, 127 p.
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- 004.0973 COM c
Adult and continuing education in Norway
The European arena of lifelong learning offers rich country-specific portfolios of historical trajectories, policy frameworks and practical evidence of adult and continuing education. This book provides an introduction to the case of Norway and outlines the key features of the Norwegian system alongside issues such as political and legal agendas, schemes of participation, provision and financin…
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- 9783763955923
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- i, 73p.: ill.
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- 374.9481 BJE a
Dynamics of Evolution and Learning
The book develops a unifying perspective on how learning influences evolutionary dynamics which for the first time explains seemingly contradicting results from the literature. It also reveals formerly unknown facets of the complex interplay of the two major biological adaptation mechanisms. The results apply to models from computational intelligence and evolutionary biology alike, thus contrib…
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- 9783866442474
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- X, 167 p.
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- 591.514 PAE d
Learning Spaces : Youth, Literacy and New Media in Remote Indigenous Australia
“This work offers us the rare opportunity to step inside innovative uses of technologies, mergers of global technologies into local knowledge, and community advocacy of local history and ideology…The young people who move through these pages are motivated and proud of having had the opportunities that make possible their linking together of historical knowledge and contemporary means of com…
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- 9781922144089
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- XI, 123 p.
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- 371.26 KRA l
Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out : Kids Living and Learning with …
An examination of young people's everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.Conventional wisdom about young people's use of digital technology often equates generational identity with technology identity: today's teens seem constantly plugged in to video games, social networking sites, and text messaging. Yet there…
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- 9780262518543
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- XIX, 419 p.
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- 302.23083 ITO h
The models of engaged learning and teaching : connecting sophisticated thinki…
This book provides a practical philosophy for promoting students' sophisticated thinking from Early Childhood to PhD in ways that explicitly interconnect across the years of education. It will help teachers, academics and the broader learning and teaching community to understand and implement these connections by introducing a conceptual framework, the Models of Engaged Learning and Teaching (M…
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- 9789811526831
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- xix, 140p. : ill.
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- 370.154 WIL m
Efficient learning machines : theories, concepts, and applications for engine…
Machine learning techniques provide cost-effective alternatives to traditional methods for extracting underlying relationships between information and data and for predicting future events by processing existing information to train models. Efficient Learning Machines explores the major topics of machine learning, including knowledge discovery, classifications, genetic algorithms, neural networ…
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- 9781430259909
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- xix, 268p. : ill.
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- 006.31 AWA e
Manuscripts of the Latin classics 800-1200
This volume explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts that contain classical Latin texts. Six experts in the field address a range of topics related to these manuscripts, including how classical texts were disseminated throughout medieval society, how readers used and interacted with specific texts, and what these books look like from a material standpoint. This collection of essa…
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- 9789087283278
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- 224p. : ill.
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- 091 MAN m
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