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Liberal Learning as a Quest for Purpose

In a extraordinary test lasting over a decade, a gaggle of 88 self reliant campuses, starting from accomplished universities to intimate schools, have validated the price of an rising academic schedule desirous about which means and objective. those courses have proven that faculty supplies rising adults with an knowing of themselves inside contemporary insecure and hugely aggressive global that reinforces their skill to strengthen the "grit" had to create significant lives.

Information Technology (IT)-Based Educational Materials: Workshop Report with Recommendations

Within the final half-century, we now have witnessed the beginning and improvement of a brand new period: the knowledge age. info expertise (IT), the first automobile of the knowledge age, has reworked the trendy place of work and is pervasive within the improvement of recent wisdom and wealth. IT has additionally dramatically prompted our capability to teach.

Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering

Can the U.S. proceed to steer the area in innovation? the reply may possibly hinge partly on how good the general public is familiar with engineering, a key section of the 'innovation engine'. A comparable trouble is tips on how to motivate younger people--particularly ladies and under-represented minorities--to ponder engineering as a occupation alternative.

Changing Places?: Flexibility, Lifelong Learning and a Learning Society

Flexibility has develop into a principal idea in a lot coverage and educational debate. members, companies and societies are all required to turn into extra versatile as a way to perform the continued methods of switch excited about lifelong studying. This publication explores how the inspiration of a studying society has built over fresh years: the alterations that experience given upward thrust to the requirement for flexibility, and the replaced discourses and practices that experience emerged within the schooling and coaching of adults.