News & Events

Science for the Educated Mind

10-Sep-2004

Bruno della Chiesa,  who leads the OECD project on Learning Science and Brain Research, talks to the Learning Lab Denmark's Quarterly Online magazine on the challenge to develop a neuroscientific approach to the question: how do we learn?

A Report on the Literacy Network and Numeracy Network Deliberations

08-Sep-2004

A report on the Literacy Network and Numeracy Network Deliberations held in Brockton, MA, USA, from 29-31 January 2003.  The goals of this meeting were to  determine consensus within cognitive neuroscience as it relates to knowledge  in literacy and mathematics education research; to innovate research in both of these areas; and to think about how to make this knowledge more accessible to a global audience of educators and policymakers. 

Second Literacy and Numeracy Network Meeting

02-Apr-2004

The Second Meeting of the Literacy and Numeracy Network was  held from 1-3 March 2004, in El Escorial, Spain.

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L'OCDE constate que l'utilisation des TIC est "décevante" dans les établissements d'enseignement secondaire du second degré

26-Feb-2004

 Les importantes dépenses d’équipement de ces 20 dernières années ont permis de faire entrer les nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) dans la quasi-totalité des établissements scolaires des pays les plus avancés de l'OCDE, mais selon un nouveau rapport de l'Organisation l’utilisation de l'informatique au quotidien dans ces établissements reste décevante.

Report of the Second Meeting of Lifelong Learning Network

26-Feb-2004

The Second Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network was held from 13-14 January 2004 in Tokyo Japan, and hosted by RIKEN BSI in collaboration with OECD-CERI.  Findings from the network laboratories were presented and discussed in the first three sessions: "Learning in Infancy", "Learning in Childhood", and "Learning Across Life".  The final session included two special presentations.

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First Literacy Network Meeting: Audio Clips and Abstracts

25-Feb-2004

Download audio clips and abstracts  from the First Literacy Network Meeting held in Brockton, Massachucetts, USA, January 2003.

Report of the "Emotions and Learning" Planning Symposium

07-Jan-2004

A  symposium on "Emotions & Learning" was held on 3 December 2003, at the University of Ulm in Germany, to discuss the effects of emotional states on information storage and retrieval.