(Science Daily) Pop quiz! Tests are good for: (a) Assessing what you’ve learned; (b) Learning new information; (c) a & b; (d) None of the above. The correct answer? According to research from psychological science, it’s both (a) and (b) – while testing can be useful as an assessment tool, the actual process of taking a test can also help us to learn and retain new information over the long term and apply it across different contexts.

(one+ magazine) I have always hated online courses. Even though I’ve been a Net enthusiast since before there was a Net, I have never appreciated when intimate, real-life encounters are relegated to the digital realm. Education is a particularly human-to-human transmission. Students learn as much from watching their professors think in real time as they do hearing whatever facts and ideas come out of them.

Want to experience a Synthetron discussion? Here is the opportunity: this month open thinking tank Join the thinking tank debate " Out with the old, in with the new" on: 26 Jan 5.00 PM CET (4pm UK time)h link: " http://thethinkingtank.co.uk/ Topic: We are probably far enough into January already for most of us to have abandoned our New Year’s resolutions.

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The world launch: at FRESH 2012 in Copenhagen KICK-START YOUR WORK MEETING – A HANDBOOK FOR FACILITATORS I don’t agree, this not a book for facilitators.

Some starting points for you as a reader Why is it important to read a book on how to kick-start a work meeting? What is effective and efficient and what is not effective and efficient within the context of a work meeting? Will such a meeting automatically become better if it is effective and efficient?

Foreword

Another sign that the college lecture might be dying: Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur is championing the "flipped classroom," a model where information traditionally transferred during lectures is learned on a student's own time, and classroom time is spent discussing and applying knowledge to real-world situations.