News tagged with learning environments
Applying enhanced virtuality to language learning
Merging the real world with its mirror in a virtual world so that students can be immersed in a hybrid learning environment that permits improved language teaching: that is the objective of scientists at the ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Feb 21, 2012 |
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Protein associated with learning implicated in causing grasshoppers to swarm
New research has found that a protein associated with learning and memory plays an integral role in changing the behaviour of locusts from that of harmless grasshoppers into swarming pests.
Dec 19, 2011 |
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Lifelong learning that adapts to you
Technology enhanced lifelong learning that automatically adapts to the needs of the learner is now in sight thanks to work by EU-funded researchers who have developed an adaptive learning platform that can ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2011 |
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Use of technology-rich learning environment reveals improved retention rates
Researchers at Rochester Institute of Technology have found that use of a technology-rich learning environment in several undergraduate engineering-technology courses has improved learning and decreased withdrawals from, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Nov 21, 2011 |
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Students plot experiments for YouTube Space Lab
Teenagers around the world on Monday were invited to design experiments that will be conducted on the International Space Station and streamed for all to see on YouTube.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 10, 2011 |
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Sex segregation in schools detrimental to equality
Students who attend sex-segregated schools are not necessarily better educated than students who attend coeducational schools, but they are more likely to accept gender stereotypes, according to a team of psychologists.
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Israeli high-tech is improving US education
For years, teachers have been complaining about large class sizes, an old-fashioned learning environment and a lack of support for students with different learning styles. Now Dovi Weiss, a Ph.D. student from Tel Aviv University's ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jul 28, 2011 |
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Teaching with technology: WSU examines status quo, benefits of online learning in Canada
The Keeywaytinook tribe in northern Ontario, Canada, couldn't afford a high school, and its youth, some as young as 13 years old, had no option but to live in unfamiliar communities to attend school. But this option sparked ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Non-traditional learning environments need clearer definitions, researchers say
What is the difference between e-learning, online learning and distance learning? University of Missouri researchers have found that even educators can't agree on what different forms of learning environments entail and, ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Getting smarter behind the wheel
Everyone learns differently. Research scientists have therefore developed a system which adapts learning content to specific individual requirements. LogiAssist addresses the needs of companies in the logistics ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Shorter work hours are approved for rookie doctors
(AP) -- Rookie doctors will be getting shorter work shifts, along with stricter supervision, but a medical student group said Wednesday that the changes don't do enough to protect sleep-deprived residents and their patients.
Sep 29, 2010 |
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3-D virtual-learning platforms
A 3D virtual world such as SecondLife, cannot in fact be considered a teaching platform, although it provides a good foundation for one. To do so, it must include some elements such as a training program, ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Scientist studies emotion in psychology, art and acting to help autistics
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometimes our deepest emotions are written all over our faces. Stanford researcher David Wilkins is studying how people can be trained to better recognize facial emotions. He is studying drawing techniques ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Experiential learning teaches change and adaptation
Economics, environmental impacts, social dynamics, and production levels are all major factors that influence the overall success of an agroecosystem. Positive or negative, these factors enact change on the system, forcing ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Wimba providing classroom alternative in light of flu outbreaks
As U.S. cases of the H1N1 flu steadily rise, colleges and universities nationwide are arranging other means of connecting students with their peers, professors and administrators, should an outbreak occur.
Nov 04, 2009 |
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