Academic Listening and Note-Taking
This course will help non-native English speakers improve their listening and note-taking skills for the purpose of listening to academic lectures. You will learn techniques for improving your understanding and skills for taking more effective notes, and you will get lots of practice in using these. If you're planning to attend college classes in English, then this class is for you.
Testing the flexible class
Why should learners be required to sit behind a desk all the time? The neuroscientific literature does not support this still existing educational concept. Indeed, neuroscience notes the harmonious relationship between movement and learning. Swiss teachers have tried the flexible classroom with very positive results.
New Learning: Principles and Patterns of Pedagogy
Education is in a state of flux – transitioning from traditional architectures and practices to new ecologies of teaching and learning influenced by the tremendous social and technological changes of our times. What changes are afoot today in workplaces, civic life and everyday community life? What are their implications for education?
Learning to Learn [Efficient Learning]: Zero to Mastery
This course will cover ideas and research from over 25 books, and 30 scientific studies, and will link and source for all the claims. One of the things you will learn in this course is that you should never just trust one person. Find multiple mentors, multiple sources, and find the commonalities between them since we are all different after all.
EpiCollect - Powerful open source mobile data collection tool
This tool allows to collect data and to quickly accumulate evidence or proofs in time and space. For biologists as well as sociologists, epidemiologists, journalists, bloggers or social animators, it can be used to mobilize people concretely around a phenomenon or a cause more efficiently than many speeches.