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Making Visible New Learning: Professional Development with Open Digital Badge Pathways

Partnership: The Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research, 2015
Emerging fields of study and technological developments have provided the library profession with new opportunities to shift the role of the library and librarian.
Erin Fields
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Awarding Innovation: An Assessment of the Digital Media and Learning Competition [PDF]

, 2014
Increasing availability and accessibility of digital media have changed the ways in which young people learn, socialize, play, and engage in civic life. Seeking to understand how learning environments and institutions should transform to respond to these
Ellen Irie, Ria Sengupta Bhatt, Sheila Wilcox, Suzuki Rodriguez   +3 more
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‘I used to walk around the playground wondering where all my friends had gone’: The reflections of how adults with developmental prosopagnosia made friends in childhood

British Journal of Special Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Current research into developmental prosopagnosia (DP) estimates a high prevalence rate in the general population, but there exist many gaps in the research. More needs to be learned about the lived experience of those with DP and how to identify it in children. Using reflexive thematic analysis, this study explored the lived experience of how
Alison Shorer
wiley   +1 more source

The Evolution of Learning in Higher Education Polytechnic Institutions: The ACADIGIA Case-Study

Ubiquity Proceedings
This paper conducts an in-depth examination of the transformative journey in learning paradigms within higher education polytechnic institutions.
Andrei Ternauciuc, Diana Andone, Vlad Mihaescu, Silviu Vert, Manuel Salvador Gomes Araújo   +4 more
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Change and Continuity in British Politics: Can the Starmer Government's Approach to Governance Resolve the Crisis in the British State without Radical Reform?

The Political Quarterly, Volume 96, Issue 1, Page 140-148, January/March 2025.
Abstract In this article, the key dilemmas that will confront the new Labour administration in Britain during its initial period in power are examined. The Starmer government is seeking to use the state pragmatically to improve British economic performance, stem the crisis in public services and strengthen the strategic capacity of Whitehall.
Patrick Diamond, David Richards, Sam Warner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Begging behavior as an honest signal of need and parent–offspring association during the postfledging dependency period

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Honest signaling mechanisms can function to appropriate care to hungry offspring and avoid misdirected care of unrelated offspring. Begging, the behavior by which offspring solicit food and parental care, may be an honest signaling mechanism for need, as
Kayla L. Davis, Sarah M. Karpanty, Jeffrey A. Spendelow, Jonathan B. Cohen, Melissa A. Althouse, Katharine C. Parsons, Cristin F. Luttazi   +6 more
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Autonomy in Video Games and Gamification [PDF]

, 2018
In the past decade, gamification (using game elements in non-gaming tasks to enhance motivation and engagement) has become a popular concept in many industries, but few studies have explored the principles under which it works.
Leventhal, Jonathan
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‘Humans Are Omnipotent and Beyond Their Destiny!’ Late Soviet Perspective on Girls’ Upbringing and the Female Self

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The article examines post‐Stalinist Soviet expertise on girls’ education and upbringing, analysing texts for and about female adolescents created by specialists in pedagogical sciences, psychology, sociology, medicine as well as children's writers and journalists from different parts of the Union, including national republics. The text focuses
Ella Rossman
wiley   +1 more source

Twenty Years of Edtech [PDF]

, 2018
An opinion often cited among educational technology (edtech) professionals is that theirs is a fast-changing field. This statement is sometimes used as a motivation (or veiled threat) to senior managers to embrace edtech because if they miss out now, it ...
Weller, Martin
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The need for delight in online education materials

, 2012
With the demand for online learning materials ever increasing and with more content being made open and free, Higher Education Institutes are now in a position to take their robust virtual learning environments and shift focus from content to user.
Procter, Adam
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