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The Differences Between Us: French and American Classrooms

"“American teachers are too careful,” she said. “We are much more aggressive in France to stop trouble before it starts, and if the methods are sometimes harsh, well, they’re also effective.” French parents and even the British ex-pats I talked to were solidly behind what they laughingly called “curb training.” As one put it, “If children can’t behave before they get to school, they do after they arrive.” "

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The Knowledge Society Network (KSN)

"The Knowledge Society Network (KSN) represents a bold design experiment that takes advantage of new knowledge media to maximize society’s knowledge resources and the effective and equitable mobilization of knowledge."

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Charles Nelson on 2007-07-11

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Knowledge Society Network (KSN) represents a bold design experiment that
takes advantage of new knowledge media to maximize society’s knowledge
resources and the effective and equitable mobilization of knowledge.

Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology

"The Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology conducts research, develops technology, and helps build communities aimed at advancing beyond "best practice" in education, knowledge work, and knowledge creation. An international community from a variety of sectors is actively engaged in pooling intellectual resources and participating in projects. "

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Manual for the Tutors of Learning Centers in Open Schools

"This is a manual for all those who would like to take up the challenging task of acting as a Tutor in an educational programme following Open and Distance Learning (ODL) methodologies."

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Commonwealth of Learning - Training Handbooks

"Five publications are currently available in a developing series of handbooks for practitioners in open and distance learning (ODL). The series covers the key roles and functions of ODL systems from the practitioner perspective. The purpose is to give practitioners advice and guidance about their tasks, functions and roles, and to enable practitioners to reflect on the critical issues they face. In this way, the series aims to model good ODL study materials and to provide key study materials for ODL training. In developing this series, the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) seeks to address the needs of ODL for accessible and practical training materials for professional development. Each handbook can be read in a number of ways - as an informative text; as part of the materials for a workshop or short training programme; or as part of an extended training and study programme requiring learners to undertake a practical project."

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Costs and Financing in Open Schools

"These self-instructional resources have their origins in a workshop on the Costs and Financing of Open & Distance Learning which took place from 6-10 August 2007 in Gabarone, Botswana. The workshop was sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) with the overall aim of building capacity to plan, negotiate and manage appropriate financial arrangements for the development and maintenance of ODL in member states. Twenty-five participants from eight countries attended the workshop. "

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“Platooning” Instruction

"To platoon or not to platoon? That’s the question facing Irving Hamer, Deputy Superintendent of Academic Operations, Technology and Innovation for the Memphis City Schools. This year for the first time, the state’s achievement test, known as TCAP (Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program), will include algebraic concepts on the fifth-grade test. Hamer says Memphis “is bracing for a very heavy downturn in student performance on the exams.”

Hamer’s office has taken a close look at the district’s 351 fifth-grade teachers and found that not one majored in math. “So what that means to the teaching of algebra at grade five is [that] it will most certainly be done by people who don’t have extensive math preparation,” he says. That doesn’t mean they won’t be able to teach what’s required, he says, but “the thinking on the part of this administration is that maybe one way to get higher-order math in the fifth grade would be to departmentalize the fifth grade and to make sure the math is being taught by the most able math teachers in a fifth-grade configuration.”"

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Costing ODL

This course provides an introduction to costing in open and distance learning (ODL). It is designed both for people setting up new ODL programmes and for people wishing to improve the quality of the management of existing programmes.

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Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST)

"The PREST training resources provide practitioners working in open and distance learning (ODL) with convenient access to basic knowledge on how to conduct research and evaluation in their everyday work. Written for ODL practitioners by ODL practitioners, the interactive materials aim to develop practical skills through engagement in research tasks that draw on research and evaluation methods from education and social science, but use illustrative examples from international open and distance learning contexts. "

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Copyright & Distance Education: A trainer's toolkit

"This toolkit provides a variety of resources designed to assist trainers in preparing and offering a workshop that introduces participants to copyright as it relates to distance education. It describes the basic features of copyright, identifies institutional issues and concerns, and outlines ways to deal with them. It is appropriate for academic staff involved in writing and presenting course materials; administrative staff involved in publishing, purchasing, selling, and presenting courses and course materials; and institutional staff involved in setting up procedures and policies on courses and course materials through central administration, the library, or a learning resources centre. The Commonwealth of Learning, 2000 (79 pages)"

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The Differences Between Us: French and American Classrooms

The Knowledge Society Network (KSN)

Institute for Knowledge Innovation and Technology

Manual for the Tutors of Learning Centers in Open Schools

Commonwealth of Learning - Training Handbooks

Costs and Financing in Open Schools

“Platooning” Instruction

Costing ODL

Practitioner Research and Evaluation Skills Training (PREST)

Copyright & Distance Education: A trainer's toolkit

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