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News & Events
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11-Feb-2008
Adults with low skills in language, literacy and numeracy are numerous in many OECD countries. The consequences of these low foundation skills span the economic, health and social well-being of individuals, families and communities. Investment in this sector of adult education is therefore crucial. A new OECD report looks specifically inside the programmes for these adult learners, with a focus on formative assessment.
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28-Jan-2008
The last two decades have seen a significant growth in the mobility of higher education programmes and providers through physical and virtual modes of delivery. This presents many new opportunities, but also a certain number of challenges, as shows the new report "Cross-border Tertiary Education: A Way towards Capacity Development", published jointly by OECD/CERI and the World Bank.
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OECD brain study suggests new avenues for teaching
02-Jul-2007
The brain never loses its capacity to learn, according to a new publication from the OECD. Contrary to the myth that “everything important about the brain is decided by the age of three,” Understanding the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science suggests not only that learning never stops - especially if actively pursued - but that it physically transforms the brain.
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01-Jun-2007
The burgeoning Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is bringing higher education resources within reach of growing numbers of potential users around the world, but education authorities will soon have to grapple with new challenges such as copyright issues and the sustainability of business models, according to a new OECD study.
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24-May-2007
The burgeoning Open Educational Resources (OER) movement is bringing higher education resources within reach of growing numbers of potential users around the world, but education authorities will soon have to grapple with new challenges such as copyright issues and the sustainability of business models, according to a new OECD study.
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05-Apr-2007
The emergence of digital native learners has major potential implications for education. The objective of the NML is to analyse this new generation of learners and understand their expectations and attitudes. The impact of digital technologies on cognitive skills and on learning expectations, and the evolution of social values and lifestyles are important issues.
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OECD report urges Switzerland to improve educational R & D
30-Jan-2007
Switzerland needs to improve the organisation and the quality of its educational research and development (R&D) in order to make these activities more relevant to policy-making and educational practices, according to a new OECD report.
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26-Jan-2007
Tom Schuller, Head of CERI, gave a speech on "Education et formation tout au long de la vie : quelle vision internationale ?" on 31st January 2007 at Université Paris Dauphine (see presentation at: http://www.wcfel.org/).
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15-Mar-2006
Join our interactive brain and learning forums for teaching practitioners. Current hot threads are on learning math problems and bilingual/intercultural teaching.
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Events
OECD Workshop on Learning to Read: Shallow vs Non-Shallow Orthographies
from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005
This OECD workshop was held at St John's College, Cambridge, on 29-30 September 2005 and was co-hosted by the Centre for Neuroscience in Education at Cambridge University.
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from 14-Sep-2005 to 15-Sep-2005
On 14 and 15 September 2005, the third OECD-conference on Evidence Based Policy Research took place in The Hague, Netherlands. The conference explored how bridges can be built between researchers, policy makers and educational practitioners by using evidence based research to improve policy making. Focus was on the role of brokerage agencies (i.e., institutions, programmes, or other mechanisms) designed to improve linkages between research and policy concerns and act as bridges in a national or international context (for example, the EPPI-Centre in the UK).
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Third Meeting of the Lifelong Learning Network
from 21-Jan-2005 to 22-Feb-2005
The 3rd meeting of the Lifelong Learning network of OECD/CERI’s Learning Sciences and Brain Research project took place at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Wako-Shi, Saitama, Japan on 21-22 January 2005. The meeting brought together some 30 experts, mixing neuroscience and educational researchers with a few practitioners and policymakers. Participants were present from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, UK and USA.
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