Resources and information
25 February 2013
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Publication | Study
How do students approach their learning in 1st and 2nd year fashion design courses? This study examines the variation between students from four different fashion design departments in UK universities, and explores the differences in how students approach their learning.
United Kingdom
23 February 2013
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This study presents a quantitative and qualitative analysis of data collected from a broad range of organisations within the knowledge-intensive service sector for the MATURE Integrating Project. The research delves into the concept of Knowledge Maturing (KM), which is goal-oriented learning on a collective level, within and across...
Pan European
23 February 2013
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Resources | Languages
This resource, the first in a 4-part series that progressively increases in difficulty, serves as an aid in learning Chinese. The familiar matching game is applied to Chinese characters—students must look at sets of similar Chinese characters and pair up the ones that match exactly. Students can build their knowledge of simple characters by...
International
22 February 2013
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Resources | Art
What kind of music can a computer make? This M.I.T. Open Course on Electronic Music Composition explores the vast array of sound-making possibilities through computers. Students capture sounds from their own environment, and use it to compose sampled sounds, feedback, and noise, using digital signal processing (DSP), convolution, algorithms, and...
International
22 February 2013
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Resources | Biology
This M.I.T. course on design is available for free through the web platform OER Commons, and provides an excellent resource for guiding the creative design process following the scientific method and peer review. Students learn to complete projects according to schedule and within a specific budget, as they create, design, build, and test...
International
22 February 2013
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Resources | Mathematics, Nature Science
What is the mathematics and physics of astronomy? This multimedia resource combines visuals with experiments to help students better understand the Solar System as a mathematics laboratory.
International
22 February 2013
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Resources | Social Sciences
Share My Lesson and TES Connect are both platforms created by teachers with other teachers in mind, a place to share useful resources. This specific link serves as an example, an interactive, independent learning lesson on 'Scarcity; Opportunity cost and marginal utility.'
International
21 February 2013
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Publication | Study
Open Educational Resources: An Asian Perspective collects ten representative country reports and case studies on OER in Asia. Countries included are: China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam.
International, Asia
21 February 2013
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Publication | Book
La educación a cualquier hora, y en cualquier sitio. Ese es el lema detrás de este libro, que recoge perspectivas sobre la educación no formal por parte de profesores, activistas, y también desde el ámbito del arte y la innovación social.
Spain
20 February 2013
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Resources | Art
Through this powerpoint presentation and worksheet, students gain a sense of how art changed in the Renaissance, by comparing images of Renaissance art with Medieval art.
International