In
the current education ecosystem, policy drives much of the demand for PD.
Not exact matches
«The
current picture is really an
ecosystem of methodologies, which makes sense because
education is a complex phenomenon if ever there was one — complex in the scientific sense,» says Anthony Kelly, a professor of
education psychology at George Mason University.
To meet this shortfall in
current, largely textbook - based curricula, with Institute of
Education Sciences (IES) funding we have developed and are studying EcoMUVE (www.ecomuve.org): a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE)- based
ecosystems science curriculum centered on grades 6 through 8 life science National Science
Education Standards (NSES).
Thinking about the future, he concludes: «I am hopeful that the
current time and money bundles in
education get unbundled so that there is a much richer
ecosystem of options available for kids.»