research

Naturally curious

nikeditor — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:22:44 +0100

In a curriculum based on facts and box-ticking, creativity is often overlooked. "The government emphasis on data, evidence, results and league tables is not to do with the quality of learning," says Penny Hay, Director of Research at 5x5x5. "The performance-led agenda is closing down possibilities for children rather than opening them up."... Read more

Gateway to 21st Century Skills.

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:48:48 +0100

Join educators sharing and networking with other educators. Our focus is on the community discussion surrounding learning resources facilitated by Web 2.0 technologies. Make suggestions, highlight best practices, add academic standards correlations, give helpful hints and more... Read more >>

Learning styles... again

nikeditor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:43:09 +0100

Once again, because I found the material logical and easy to understand, it never occurred to me to question the validity of the theories or the research. I embraced it enthusiastically, to the extent that I developed a resource for my students at the IT learning centre, by means of which they could identify their own learning style and adopt some tactics that would enable them to maximise their learning experience at the centre... Read more >>

My-E

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:37:38 +0100

My-E (My Education) is a prototype online visual environment that can support very young students to explore and express their own personal learning experiences, interests and aims... Read more >>

Mediating the Tensions of Online Learning with Second Life

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:35:09 +0100

The authors posit that a multiuser virtual environment such as Second Life offers a valuable medium for enhancing and enriching online education because it meets human needs for belonging, esteem, and self-actualization... Read more >>

Understanding the Net Generation's Texts

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:28:09 +0100

Mark Mabrito and Rebecca Medley explore the nature of Net-Generation texts as a reflection of the cognitive differences between this generation's students and their older instructors... Read more >>

Making the Online Classroom a Learning Organization

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:21:57 +0100

Learning organizations are proficient at two types of learning: "adaptive" learning and "generative" learning. To survive, an organization must solve short-term problems. This is the realm of adaptive learning. But, what sets learning organizations apart from other institutions is generative learning. Generative learning enhances the capacity to create... Read more >>

Low-cost laptop experiment under way

nikeditor — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:08:14 +0100

Some critics wonder whether a computer initially designed for children in poor, rural parts of the world--and primarily using its own non-Windows operating system--is the right learning tool for students who eventually will seek to join the general computing population in the U.S... Read more >>

PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES AND PERCEIVED LEARNING EFFECTIVENESS IN EFL WRITING CLASSES

nikeditor — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:05:47 +0100

This study employs a naturalistic classroom-based approach to explore the interaction between how an AWE program, MY Access!, was implemented in three different ways in three EFL college writing classes in Taiwan and how students perceived its effectiveness in improving writing... Read more >>

THE INFLUENCE OF CORPUS TECHNOLOGY ON L2 ACADEMIC WRITING

nikeditor — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:00:43 +0100

This paper reports on a qualitative study that investigated the changes in students’ writing process associated with corpus use over an extended period of time. The primary purpose of this study was to examine how corpus technology affects students’ development of competence as second language (L2) writers... Read more >>