Sentences with phrase «learning of students of»

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We want a diverse curriculum that reaches every student's unique learning needs, but this can be a great challenge considering all that we have to prepare for that is outside of our control.

Tech startsup are pioneering a wave of new ways to personalize the learning experience for every student in the classroom

As you've no doubt guessed, it's a digital revolution that calls into question the very principles of education, prompting Peter J. Wells, chief of higher education at UNESCO, to remark that: «Industry employers contend that half of what students learn in the first two years of a four - year technology degree will be out of date by the time they graduate.»

It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

When MBA administrators at Laurentian University learned they had the highest proportion of female students of any business school in Canada, they were shocked.

«Students learn best when they are engaged; when they perceive the significance of study in their real daily lives.»

In October 2012, when two of Hinton's students won that competition, it became clear to all that deep learning had arrived.

Students receive mentorship from executives within the business community, and conduct three projects under the supervision of professors that integrate course learnings.

In a meeting with his boss, Maynard, who will graduate from St. Mary's University this spring, learned that the company where he had been working part - time for nearly a year wanted to help him pay off his student loan — if he had no objections, of course.

Adaptive learning software is quickly replacing the role of textbooks in the classrooms and students are tackling subjects with the aid of tailor - made computer programs that assist their needs.

It may sound far from what traditionalists would define as classroom learning, but it's all in service of getting students excited and passionate about education, Baker says.

As of yet, there are no fully online electrical engineering programs in Canada, but some offer students the ability to work while they learn.

Daunted by the expense of a four - year program, students are focusing on learning the skills they need for the jobs they want.

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

Real - world learning comes via the Advanced Program for Experiential Consulting, in which teams of five or six students tackle two projects with one of the school's corporate partners.

The program is capped with a business trip abroad, where students meet and learn from local executives, tour businesses in a number of economic sectors, and participate in a consulting project with classmates and students from international host schools.

This is one of the first lessons neuroscience students learn, according to Parton.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

Even though Pioneer is considered a «high - needs school» and enrolls a large number of English language learners and children of immigrants, every student gets a chance to learn in Jones» high - tech classroom.

The increase in average student debt, moreover, comes on the heels of news that college students don't really learn anything and the opinions of pundits like James Altucher that college is just a huge waste of time and money.

We chat with Skillshare co-founder and poker champ Michael Karnjanaprakorn about how his startup is redefining how we learn and what the student of tomorrow craves.

It's based on the ideas she was already teaching her students about how to break out of potentially dangerous patterns of learned silence.

Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it's beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

In 2014, Chaudhry says, MOOCs will come of age, thanks to new entrants who have learned from their predecessors» mistakes and figured out how to make students stick with a course.

Chuck Cohn is the CEO and founder of Varsity Tutors, a live learning platform that connects students with personalized instruction to accelerate academic achievement.

In fact, Arnold's research demonstrates that students who truly enjoy learning the most often struggle in school, where students must balance attention given to subjects about which they're truly passionate with the demands of their other coursework.

«When students encounter a set of problems that they struggle with, they end up learning in a more deep way, and are more equipped to transfer that information.»

Code.org's vision is that «every student in every school should have the opportunity to learn computer science» and that it should be part of core curriculum.

He fixed the transformer connections and all of the lights turned on, prompting cheers from the students who had been learning in the dark for five months.

«The students get paid internships as a way to offset the cost of college, and when they graduate they can say they learned it and actually practiced it on the job.

When you join a coding bootcamp you are entering into a life - changing experience, one that will teach you new technical skills and provide you with a community of current students, alumni and hiring partners who all share similar values and perspectives on learning.

It offers a specialization in global energy management and sustainability, where students are put into five intensive residencies in key energy centres around the world over a period of 20 months to learn from top industry experts.

Prospective students interested in management consulting will be intrigued by the chance to learn and apply best practices by working with executives of local companies.

Students with a growth mindset, on the other hand, didn't care if their mistakes were revealed to their peers; they saw this as inevitable and nothing to be ashamed of, because their goal was to «learn at all times and at all costs.»

These programs attract some of the best students and teach them most of the content they would learn in a traditional MBA.

In April, Airbnb said it banned a host on its service after it learned the person refused to rent to a law student at University of California, Los Angeles because of her Asian background.

Soon droves of students will be issued reading lists, inventories of books they are told to they need to read to learn how to become the best, the greatest, or as successful as (fill in famous name here).

In partnership with organizations like Microsoft, Dell Inc., IBM and National Geographic Society, ePals social learning network reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in 200 countries.

Through the class students will learn macro and micro economics, how to value companies, and the basics of how investment banks and management consulting firms work.

So if a student says, «I'm not a math person — yet» or «I can't do this — yet,»» she explains, «it puts their fixed mindset statement into a growth mindset context of learning over time.»

And so, essentially, the average student in Chicago looks like they're learning six years worth of math and reading skills in the five - year period between third and eighth grade.

A study conducted by Hanover Research found that 87 % of surveyed college students said analytics on their performance had a positive influence on their learning.

On the topic of temptation, Green said he learned a big lesson from the early days of his first company, Zimride, a ride - sharing service for college students and employees of local companies.

Over the weekend, Rick Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator and Republican who previously ran for president, suggested that student protestors should learn CPR instead of pushing for stricter gun control laws.

With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

Robert Bjork, of the University of California, coined the phrase «desirable difficulties» to describe the counter-intuitive notion that learning should be made harder by, for instance, spacing sessions further apart so that students have to make more effort to recall what they learnt last time.

In 1998, Cheriton and Sun Microsystems co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim met a pair of grad students on Cheriton's front porch to learn more about the project they were working on.

Students begin by learning discrete hand skills: stripping cards from the top of a deck, pitching cards to players.

How one retired professor made a fortune by co-authoring a textbook that would shape how generations of MBA students learned finance.