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The Significance of the Learning Society for Women and Men with Learning Difficulties

Gender and Education, 2001
This article draws on work undertaken as part of the Economic and Social Research Council's Learning Society Programme. The project from which data are drawn, entitled 'The Meaning of the Learning Society for Adults with Learning Difficulties', focused on lifelong learning opportunities available to people with learning difficulties and experiences of ...
Riddell, Sheila, Baron, Stephen, Wilson, Alastair   +2 more
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The significance of dialogue in learning and observing learning

Computers & Education, 1991
Abstract Given the widespread usage of computers by groups of learners rather than individuals, this paper focuses on the issue of the significance of dialogue, and the potential relevance of dialogue analysis to research on learning with computers. At the theoretical level there are two considerations.
Stephen W. Draper, Anthony Anderson
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What is Significant Learning/

Improving College and University Teaching, 1968
(1968). What is Significant Learning/ Improving College and University Teaching: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 178-178.
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THE SIGNIFICANCE OF LEARNING FOR AGING

Educational Gerontology, 2003
This paper examines the effects of learning on the aging process. The thesis is advanced that learning slows down specific aspects of aging and its side-effects. Starting from a clarification of the concepts of "aging" and "learning," this thesis is confirmed on the basis of empirical studies for basic processes of aging and its side effects.
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Learning progressions: significant promise, significant challenge

Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft, 2012
Over the past five years or so, the concept of alearning progression has gained traction in the United States (US) science education community. Learning progressions have been touted as a means of addressing a number of vexing and persistent problems facing science education in the US (and around the world).
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The significance of emotions in teaching and learning: on making emotional significance

International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2007
We follow the insights of psychoanalytic theory to offer a way of thinking about emotional life in the classroom. Using three case studies, each of which illuminates an aspect of emotional difficulty in relation to learning and failing to learn, we argue that educators and educational leaders benefit from attending to and listening for difficulties in ...
Alice J. Pitt, Chloë Brushwood Rose
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Learning Statistically Significant Contrast Sets

2016
Contrast set learning is important to discover control variables that can distinguish different groups in a dataset. Association rule mining has an inherent connection to the contrast set learning problem and has also been used to address it. All of the association rule based contrast set learning techniques use support-confidence based methods and ...
Mohomed Shazan Mohomed Jabbar, Osmar R. Zaïane   +1 more
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Applying the Principles of Significant Learning in the e-Learning Environment

Journal of Nursing Education, 2008
E-learning technologies in education use adult learning theories that view the educator as a facilitator of learning and an assessor of outcomes. The change to this technology requires a shift in the focus of a course from the educator to the subject.
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Transforming Leadership Development for Significant Learning

New Directions for Student Leadership, 2015
Leadership education is undergoing a transformation where powerful pedagogies and emerging knowledge about the scholarship of teaching and learning supplant long held and often‐outmoded practices of leadership education. This transformation requires new commitments to evidence‐based practice, critical consciousness, and more complex understanding of ...
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