Group items tagged learning - Skills Training and Research Technologies

shared by cristina costa on 09 Dec 09 - Cached

Ever since the 17th century, the "advancement of learning" as Francis Bacon called it, has depended upon the way print publications have organized the evaluation and dissemination of academic work. The print medium has been the default scholarly medium.
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print is no longer the primary intellectual medium, and it is time for scholars to move forward.
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Knowledge has new habits, new identities, and a new social life within the radically transformed ways in which communication takes place today.
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We must have a scholarly communications system configured to the predominant communications medium of the new millennium.
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Academics who refuse to transform the way they communicate and value information will find, like the professional journalists, that they simply won't play much of a role in the knowledge commons.
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shared by cristina costa on 08 Oct 10 - Cached

shared by cristina costa on 25 Jan 10 - Cached

Many judicial, commercial, medical and university practices have their roots in the Middle Ages
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there have been almost no changes in university teaching practices
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he main form of teaching in universities is still lecturing, although nothing in 50 years of research on learning supports this approach.
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university teaching. Lecturers, in the main, repeat what was done to them.
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In suggesting a focus on learning rather than teaching - ie, on what the learner rather than the teacher does
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teaching will be considered important to the extent that both people and knowledge are considered important
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And if teachers manage to foster the kind of qualities noted above, it is by how - rather than what - they teach, and that is why appropriate training courses are important
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shift some attention from the impersonal to the personal,
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shared by cristina costa on 12 Nov 09 - Cached

Rubin will offer his views on the problematic yet remarkable development of European Humanities University (EHU), formerly in Minsk, and will show videos made by Belarusan students often working in collaboration with SUNY students.
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For seven years, Rubin has been developing and teaching his Cross Cultural Video course in which SUNY students have co-produced videos with students in Turkey, Mexico, Belarus, Germany and Lithuania. He taught the course with EHU in Minsk until 2005, when that university was shut down by the government
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While at SUNY Cortland, Rubin also wishes to meet faculty interested in online international learning. With the participation of a number of SUNY Cortland colleagues, COIL has become a leading center for on-line teaching and learning along an international dimension. According to Rubin, the mission of COIL is to develop more on-line courses with an international dimension throughout SUNY.
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