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News & Events
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13-Nov-2008
OECD economies have experienced the transformation from their traditional industrial base to the knowledge era, in which learning and innovation are central. Yet, many of today's schools have not caught up: they continue to operate as they did in the earlier decades of the 20th century. How can learning within and outside schools be reconfigured in environments that foster the deeper knowledge and skills so crucial in the 21st century?
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28-Oct-2008
This conference took stock of the lessons learned over the decade of "Schooling for Tomorrow" and looked ahead through the major trends impacting on the future. The conference was also an opportunity to learn about the Finnish experience with futures thinking in education complemented by visits to 21st century learning environments in and around Helsinki.
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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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Events
Orthographes transparentes vs non-transparentes et apprentissage de la lecture : un atelier OCDE
from 29-Sep-2005 to 30-Sep-2005
Cet atelier été réservé aux experts invités à St John’s College, Cambridge, les 29 et 30 septembre 2005. Il été co-organisé par le Centre des Neurosciences en Éducation de l’Université de Cambridge.
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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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from 26-Jun-2005 to 28-Jun-2005
The OECD/Canada/Alberta Conference on E-Learning in Post-Secondary Education: Policies, Practices, and Research was held in Calgary, Canada, 26-28 June, 2005. The conference, jointly organised by the OECD's Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) , Industry Canada, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, and Alberta Advanced Education , was intended to: discuss key policy issues in e-learning in post-secondary education; provide a forum for sharing good practices and challenges, and identify opportunities for research and collaboration.
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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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