A guide to the different learning theories

Educational theorists, from philosophers like Socrates and Rousseau, to researchers like Howard Gardner today, have addressed the theories of learning. Many of their ideas continue to influence home schoolers, as well as traditional educators, therefore a little familiarity with some of the ideas most popular among home schoolers, will help you make sense of the wealth of available materials when you begin to make choices for your family.

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Office 365: Teachers in control

Office 365 for Education was launched in June 2012, all in a direction to helping transform education. Teachers were asking for a holistic collaboration platform that would allow them and their students to access the knowledge and tools required for 21st century learning easily and safely. They needed a way to communicate, with each other, within their communities, with other teachers and the students around the world, with shrinking budgets and increasing demands on their time.

Changes in teaching and learning are happening at a literally “break-neck” speed. Students are coming into the classroom with new ideas about communication, collaboration and the role of technology in their lives. Office 365 could do more in transforming the education, it will help bring educators and students together to embrace the ever-increasing opportunities of this new era of digital learning.
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Which is the best online university for you?

You are probably aware that the enhancement of internet technology leads to rapid growth of online education.

Having said this it is a fact that online degree programs are increasing in popularity and creditability, where more and more online universities are available on internet offering degrees from Bachelor to MBAs and PhD and Subject areas range from business to nursing.

There are so many information and options available on online universities that sometimes it can be really difficult to choose which online university to enroll for your degree program.
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Discover the magic of m-learning

The current trends in the professional sector when going from e-learning to mobile learning (m-learning), like compatibility, security and training, within the current mobile landscape with the best practices in mobile learning, are getting more and more popular, tempting and promising.

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Considering the fact that there were around 500 million smartphones, 34 million tablets and over 1 billion app downloads in 2011 alone – according to the records of the global mobile communications market, (Cisco Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast), in 2012 there are likely to be more mobile communication devices in the world than people.
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An affordable degree catering to the needs of a teacher

 

Trainers and assessors need to be trained themselves before going on to assess others. In Australia, all trainers hence must undergo a program called TAE40110 –certificate IV in Training and Assessment. There are ten parts to this program, seven of which are compulsory. The trainer (who incidentally becomes the student) learns how to plan assessment activities and guidelines, how to plan and organise group learning and how to plan and deliver learning in the work place.

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Become an Audio books fan

Audio books are becoming more and more popular, as people have less time to sit down and read a book. Taking advantage of iPods and MP3 players to listen to the latest bestseller as they rush through their daily lives is more common practice.

In the direction of using more of the latest technology gadgets is the developing of the audio books industry. Its emerging trend is following the latest technologies and it is adapting accordingly, offering more and more titles from all genres and for all audiences.

Audio books can work very well alongside printed books for kids that have grasped the basics of reading, but need to develop vocabulary further. They can sit down with the printed book and follow the text as they listen to it, being read on a CD or MP3 download. But they can also download it from the following web pages and have it on their computers, tablets or mobile phones.
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