Brainbox: neuroscience and learning  
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Advances in neuroscience mean that our knowledge of the brain, how it develops and works, is rapidly improving. But what is our current level of understanding of the brain, what developments in related technology are taking place and what are the potential implications for education and learning? Read more
Student Peer Teaching Strategy  
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Student Peer Teaching Strategy is an innovative teaching strategy incorporating ICT into education. Peer Teaching is student centered and practices elements of ATLAS (Active Teaching and Learning Approaches in Science) Read more
How to use picture management software in teaching and learning  
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Administrators can use picture management software to store and catalogue school photos and to share photos of class and school events with students, staff and parents. Teachers can use picture management software to organize and share photos that can be used in the classroom to generate discussion and inspire writing or for media literacy projects. Read more
Bridging Worlds: Making Connections in Education: Universiti Brunei Darussalam 21st to 24th May 2009  
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Education encompasses a variety of worlds – home, school, university, the workplace and industry – situated within the national and the global communities. The resulting tensions and competing paradigms in these worlds of education provide a rich framework in which to explore and examine strategies necessary for their resolution. Read more
Open Educational Resources  
Presentation on Open Educational Resources (OER) at the Brandon Hall Innovations in Learning conference. Talks about licenses, content models, funding models, some major initiatives, and more.
Education for the 21st Century: A Charter  
The world is changing rapidly. The globalised economy creates opportunity, challenge and unpredictability. The great challenges of sustainability and the shifting demographics of our population will require new thinking, and collective action... Read more >>
The Power of Wikis in Higher Ed  
In this first half of a two-part interview, Mader talks about powerful ways to use wikis in education, content ownership issues, and how wikis tend to be used--and why... Read more >>
Using a content management system in education  
Content management systems (CMS) are computer programs which are used to create and maintain websites. There are many different CMS programs. Each type of CMS can be customised with specific functions, enabling you to a have various options (modules) on your website, depending on your needs. Options include: modules for publishing news, modules for displaying on-line books and modules for creating blogs...Read more >>

Young People and Social Networking Services  
The project is designed to investigate how social networking services can and are being used to support personalised formal and informal learning by young people in schools and colleges... Read more >>
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