Tag: <span>learning by doing</span>

Tag: learning by doing

Latest News: Edtech intensive Learning Rooms making your mistakes known

eLearningworld News from US A TEIL Classroom (technology enhanced interactive learning) is directed on problem-based learning where the students work in groups to solve a multitude of problems with support of interactive tools. This learning approach makes the experience more similar to the working life where every mistake is signalled …

Latest News: Gamification boosts Terrorism and Crime course at Penn State

eLearningworld News from US Higher education courses usually include an extreme amount of reading. The Security Risk Analysis 211: Threat of Terrorism and Crime course at Penn State Worthington Scranton is no exception. This made the instructor Fred Aebli start thinking of how to make the course more fun and …

Latest News: Turning the School into a Makerspace for Undergraduates

eLearningworld News from US “Mind and hand” is MITs motto and one of programmes that in both parts fully live up to this motto is the “SuperUROP” programme at the MIT School of Engineering. The programme started in 2012 in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), but …

Making Educational Trends Work II: Four general approaches the coming years

eLearningworld Weekly Review This is the second part of our analysis of the report Innovating Pedagogy 2015: the 10 technological trends set to transform education from Open University and SRI Education. We at eLearningworld simplified these trends into four approaches that will have great impact the coming years: the Science …

Latest News: Apple’s CEO talks Education: Fundamental changes is needed

eLearningworld News from US Today Thursday, Apple is offering an Hour of code program at all its retail stores globally. Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple, made an unannounced visit in the Apple store on Upper East Side on Madison Avenue in New York City yesterday where he visited an …

Latest News: Government launches Makerspaces for Education

eLearningworld News from Luxembourg November 20 the Luxembourg Minister of Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, launched the first six educational makerspaces. The focus is to offer interested young people spaces to use their creativity and experimentation for their own digital projects. These makerspaces are the first pillar of BEE …

Latest News: New Method to test Medical Students real world competence

eLearningworld News from Canada Queen’s University professor Adam Szulewski, has developed a new assessment method for medical students that is based on more realworld results than traditional testing. The students are using eye-tracking glasses, while they are faced with tasks that requires immediate decisions. Professor Szulewski explains that this:  “…increases …