BRB Newsletter, Fall 2013

This issue features: Updates - Featured Story: Our New Home, American Society of Biomechanics Meting, Nonlinear Workshop 2013, European Nonlinear Workshop, and Staff Updates; Projects - VA Peripheral Arterial Disease, Motor Development, Optical Topography System, Effects of Virtual Reality, Virtual Reality, Robotic Surgery, Sports Medicine, Amputee, Proof of Concept Grant, Lateral Stepping, The Marriage of Music and Math, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Balance, NASA Grant, Back Pain Research, and Faculty Research International Grants. Other Content - Other Visitors/Tours, Student Awards, Travels, and Campaign for Nebraska.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/nbcfnewsletter/1010/thumbnail.jp

New Updates in E-Learning

This book presents state-of-the-art educational technologies and teaching methodologies and discusses future educational philosophies in support of the global academic society. New Updates in E-Learning is a collection of chapters addressing important issues related to effective utilization of the Internet and Cloud Computing, virtual robotics, and real-life application of hybrid educational environments to enhance student learning regardless of geographical location or other constraints. Over ten chapters, the book discusses the current and future evolution of educational technologies and methodologies and the best academic practices in support of providing high-quality education at all academic levels

The Making of a Makerspace: A Handbook on Getting Started

This research project sought to develop a makerspace handbook that is useful in supporting pre-service teacher candidates to integrate makerspace and maker mindset in their classrooms. As makerspaces have become more common in our schools and classrooms, the handbook was created to provide a practical, hands-on guide for getting started with designing and implementing makerspaces in K-12 classrooms and schools. This project investigated the knowledge needed to design and facilitate makerspace learning environments, developed the handbook The Making of a Makerspace: A Handbook on Getting Started, and collected expert feedback from reviewers of the handbook to contribute to teachersʼ knowledge about makerspace technologies. Emergent themes from data analysis included how the handbook supported three areas of makerspaces: (a) stations and activities, (b) the maker culture, and (c) future ready skill development. A resource such as this can grow and evolve but was designed to provide a foundation for pre-service teacher candidates getting started with makerspace design and maker mindset in their own teaching practice

English Curriculum at Elementary and Secondary Schools in Japan : Where Do We Come From? Where Are We? Where Are We Going?

The English curriculum at elementary and secondary schools in Japan will change in 2020, and entrance examinations to universities will change in 2021, due to the important role that English has under globalization today. English has become a Lingua Franca, and English education should contribute to raising our awareness as global citizens and developing empathy toward one another. Teaching ethics, relevant to the globalized world today, is desired so that children will be able to make friends with people from all over the world.The New Course of StudyEnglish educationglobalizationeducational reform

The Cowl - v. 69 - n. 20 - Mar 17, 2005

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 69 - Number 20 - March 17, 2005. 32 pages

Toward a digital future of curriculum, pedagogy & assessment

In the last three decades, digital technologies have become an integral part of our lives, societies and education systems worldwide. Hence it is essential that educators can teach and incorporate technologies in their teaching practices (Yadav & Lachney, 2022). By doing so, we can ‘future-proof’ the upcoming generations who will learn with the aid of constantly evolving technologies, need to understand the impact of technologies on society, and must use technologies to showcase creativity and innovation in all aspects of life. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns since early 2020 have accelerated the incorporation of technology in education. Webmediated education has been introduced to replace or supplement traditional offline modes of teaching and learning. The willingness to adopt and experiment with digital technologies in education, including online learning software, video conferencing tools, virtual tutoring, and learning apps, continues to grow. We have chosen the following blog posts for this edition of BERA Bites because they provide valuable insights into curriculum, pedagogy and assessment, and suggest further lines of inquiry for research and practice. The authors address important issues impacting education and offer ideas for developing a shared vision for the digital future of education

Professional Development Differentiated & Digitized

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Reasons why self-directed learning is important in South African during the COVID-19 pandemic

We live in unprecedented times and are bombarded with various changes to normality and everyday usual business. Recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of university education in South Africa and the world. The move towards remote teaching has denied medical students to do their practical work in hospitals, science students to access their laboratories where they conduct their experiments as part of their coursework and has denied students a chance to gain information in university libraries. This has had effects on both students’ and lecturers’ progress in the academic year and has called for an abrupt change in the way they view teaching and learning. The aim of this article is to highlight the significance of being a self-directed learner during the COVID-19 pandemic and to answer the following question: Why is self-directed learning important in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic? To answer this question, I discuss the challenges faced globally during the COVID-19 pandemic, and I focus on the challenges higher education institutions face with regard to remote teaching. Thereafter, I discuss self-directed learning and its importance in students and teachers with the aim of highlighting what self-directed learners can do when faced with the abrupt changes brought about by COVID-19. Lastly, recommendations are made to highlight that higher education institutions should prepare learners to be self-directed in their learning in order to prepare them for such abrupt changes in the future

Doodle Families Manual

This Manual has been designed to support the delivery of the Doodle Families Programme. As well asproviding all the programme content, it details the "how and why" of the sessions, links the practice withtheory, outlines the steps necessary to complete each session and offers background information, tips andsupport to Facilitators in the delivery of the programme. Doodle Families is a Family Literacy Programme, designed to be delivered in two components – one forparents/guardians and the other is for children. Parents' sessions can be delivered during the school day andthe children's sessions are delivered after school