eLearningworld News from US Higher education courses usually include an extreme amount of reading. The Security Risk Analysis 211: Threat of Terrorism and Crime course at Penn State Worthington Scranton is no exception. This made the instructor Fred Aebli start thinking of how to make the course more fun and …
eLearningworld News from US One of the most acknowledged theories about human learning was first published in 1995 and it states that learning is the product of two complementary learning systems. The theory is developed from David Marr, a British computational neuroscientist, research and it claims that the first system …
eLearningworld News from UK Richard Jolly is Adjunct Professor of Organisational Behaviour at London Business School. In his research on the challenges of leading in times of change he has developed a toolkit of what skills is required. He identify ten keys to management that is vital for success. This …
eLearningworld News from Luxembourg At a press conference March 23, 2016, the Luxembourg Minister of Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, introduced the concept of multilingual education that the government will set up in kindergartens. The vision is based on the fact that children during the first years of their …
eLearningworld News from Sweden Teachers of mathematics in Japan do not handle a new math-problem by showing the solution on the blackboard. Instead they are letting the students guess the answer by taking a non-authoritative role in the classroom. This is a much more active pedagogical approach that has proved …
eLearningworld News from Ireland The Irish Minister for Education and Skills, Jan O’Sullivan, TD, recently has announced a €210m investment in digital technology in schools. The funding will be used to implement a digital strategy in schools during the coming five years. This includes dedicated multi-annual funding to schools to …
eLearningworld News from Africa Only 4% of the households in Africa have internet access. However, more than 50% of the population owns cell phones. The educational development is literally in the hands of the people, which will boost the positive economical development that is taking place in many corners of …
eLearningworld News from Germany The Ministry of Education identifies three main areas to help refugees to enter the German society: – Learning the German language, – Recognition of skills and capacities, – Integration into training and work. It is basically a humanitarian task to integrate refugees quickly. The Federal Education …
“Finding the right work is like discovering your soul in the world.” Thomas Moore “Education is not the piling of learning, information, data, facts, skills or abilities – that’s training or instruction – but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed…” Thomas Moore
eLearningworld News from the World Research shows that playing video games affect the brain. For instance action-based games improve the processing speed and adaptive games improve the working memory. This empowerment of skills and memory also works to improve conditions for children with ADHD. However, neuroscience research also shows that …
