Moving online: What you can implement now
Photo taken from the iMBA program from the University of Illinois, hosted on Coursera By Linlin Xia and Alexandra Urban, Teaching & Learning Team, Coursera Online, live sessions provide effective synchronous learning opportunities and create a space to engage with your students while remote. In particular, live events are optimal for: Mastering content that requires…
How human rights are changing education?
The concept of human rights has evolved after a long struggle of humankind. In the two world wars, humankind suffered barbarous acts and grave human rights violations. After experiencing these horrible human rights violations, the international community comes up with momentous human rights instruments. The most important human right document is the Universal Declaration of…
Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade
Adoption of artificial intelligence is on the rise: According to research firm Gartner, 37 percent of organizations have now “implemented AI in some form,” and adoption is up 270 percent over the past four years. Schools are following suit: Technavio’s “Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector 2018-2022” report predicts a nearly 48 percent growth rate for AI tools…
Various Benefits of Online Education
Online education has become popular nowadays. More and more learners are applying in web-based courses to generate a level and advance in their professional lives. Online education is preferred by individuals who are not able to go a normal traditional university or higher education for various reasons. The level earned from an excellent online…
IMPLICATION OF STAKEHOLDERS ON QURANIC SCHOOLS (A FIELD STUDY ON THE CURRENT SITUATION OF...
This study reveals the current situation of the students of the Qur’anic school in Kano metropolis in order to highlight the implications of repeated efforts by parents, society, non-governmental organizations and governments. The researcher adopted the descriptive method, with structured questionnaire distributed to 120 respondents. Findings from 104 returned responses revealed that there is a…
Should Gifted and Talented Education Be Eliminated?
The article “Should a Single Test Decide a 4-Year-Old’s Educational Future?” explains how students get admitted to the city’s gifted classes and schools: To get into a gifted and talented elementary school program in New York City, children must ace a single, high-stakes exam — when they are 4 years old. This admissions process is…
DIFERENCIAS ENTRE LA GESTION PUBLICA DE TURISMO ENTRE BOLIVIA Y ESTADOS UNIDOS
El presente artículo es un breve análisis de una visita que se realizó al país de Estados Unidos para conocer los ámbitos de la gestión del turismo en tres estados y obtener las principales lecciones aprendidas y conocimiento técnico del área. Esta visita estuvo organizada por el programa IVLP. El Programa de Liderazgo para Visitantes…
How to Integrate Mastery Learning into Course Design
by Adam Hodges, Ph.D., Sr. Teaching & Learning Specialist A fundamental challenge for course design is how to improve learner performance on educational outcomes. The key to doing this in online education is to maximize the mastery learning principles built into the Coursera platform. The traditional model of education revolves around a fixed time frame…
Aromaterapia como complemento de la psicoterapia
La Aromaterapia como complemento de la psicoterapia, si bien no es un tema apreciado totalmente, quizás por la ciencia empírica, para los que sí probamos todo lo que esté a nuestro alcance para poder llegar al conflicto mental y solucionarlo, es una herramienta complementaria de mucho y apreciado peso. En la historia de la humanidad,…
Embrace Training in ED and HigherEd
I’m sure it happens to you. There you are at work, when you ask yourself, how would Plato handle it? What would Peter the Great do in this situation with your missing lunch, that was there just an hour ago waving at you in the fridge? Perhaps in the next few weeks you will visit…
