Here is a list of Princeton Review's based on surevey responses from 130.000 students at colleges and universities across U.S.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/06/happiest-students-2015-prin...
Selçuk I think this is a wonderful idea:) Dream is everything and helps student to set their own goals and expectations from lesson even from life :)
I think this needs more clarification. There is a problem with motivation. It directs/energizes person externally. We manipulate student for our aims. On the other hand, inspiration is giving birt...
Studies found that students who are exposed to more natural light perform better than students who are not. Based on this fact, there some Learn by Design School Constructions. I share on of the sc...
Does extrinsic motivation completely kills intrinsic motivation? Two informative blog posts.They can be an answer to Selcuk's question. http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2014/10/how-teachers-can-mot...
Hello everybody. Welcome to the Fall 2015 semester Learning Sciences course Diigo group. We have now 46 members in our group. I am looking forward to our conversation here on Diigo this semester. S...
The AIM system (Adaptive Instructional Materials) is an indexed and annotated database of electronic resources that incorporates state-of-the-art examples of the core principles of How People Learn...
Ann Leslie Brown (1943-1999) was an educational psychologist who developed methods for teaching children to be better learners. Her interest in the human memory brought Brown to focus on active mem...
Hi all! Let me introduce two researchers who have made important contributions to learning sciences. The first name is Seymour Papert, who established connections with Piaget's developmental psycho...
Hello everyone. I'd like to welcome the EDS-542 students of Fall 2014 semester to our Diigo group. With last year's course community, we had a very productive Diigo interaction and I hope to contin...
David Paul Ausubel (1918-2008) was an American psychologist and cognitive learning theoriest who had a significant contribution to the areas of educational psychology, cognitive science, and scienc...
A TEDx talk done by designer writer, and educator, August de los Reyes who claims that our ability to externalize our inner thoughts and ideas is vital to both learning and design. http://www.yout...
The video presents the reason why students cannot be engaged in the activities at school while they are very active in their daily life. The educators should be aware of that new generation has dif...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5q4BiGcRqM Here is a good example to see how PBL effects students' learning
Following e-mail recieved couple of hours ago, got excited and wanted to share. I hope it will be helpful for our literature reviews. Dear Students, LearnTechLib Database will be on trial access ...
The problem comes with the understanding of formal education which feels it should not leave any spare time for any activity students wish to do..
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Unfortunately, this is another case in Turkey in which reforms (!) are made and put into practice without conducting of research and eliminating the underlying causes. I wish closing down the priva...
meaningful tasks, learning by doing or seated students without fun. brief information on Lave's theory a nice start before readings maybe :)
Here are the reports mentioned at the end of Chapter 2 published by the National Academy Press. They have free access. Knowing What Students Know: The Science and Design of Educational Assessment (...
Dr. Barron is a developmental psychologist at Stanford University. She mainly studies processes of collaborative learning. She is well-known for her 5-year-study documenting adolescents' learning e...
