Key
analyses
Cognitive
neuroscience and brain research can inform
educational policy and practice
CERI has just published new insights into how we
learn. The book Understanding
the Brain: The Birth of a Learning Science
shows what the latest brain imaging techniques
and other advances in the neurosciences actually
reveal about how the brain develops and operates
at different stages in life from birth to old
age, and how the brain is involved in acquiring
skills such as reading and counting. It also
presents scientific insights into what happens
when the brain malfunctions in conditions such as
dyslexia or Alzheimer's disease.
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and Learning website to learn more and tune
into a podcast about the publication
Education
has also significant social effects
Education is vital for economic
success, both at the national and the individual
level. But education also has social effects. Tom
Schuller, Head of CERI, is interviewed for
the release of Understanding
the Social Outcomes of Learning, a first
attempt to gather and synthesise developments in
measuring the social effects. The report focuses
on two broad areas: health, and civic and social
engagement.
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interview
Open
Educational Resources bring new opportunities and
challenges for higher education
More
and more institutions and individuals are sharing
their digital learning resources over the
Internet, openly and for free, as Open
Educational Resources. Building on its previous
work on e-learning, CERI has observed this
rapidly changing phenomenon. In its recent book Giving Knowledge for Free: The Emergence
of Open Educational Resources, it asks why this is
happening, who is involved and what the most
important implications of this development are.
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Educational
policy decisions should be made based on the best
evidence possible
The
information readily available for educational
policy making is often unsuitable. Either because
the rigorous research required for policy needs
has not been conducted, or because the research
that is available is contradictory and does not
suggest a single course of action. CERI has
therefore decided to bring together international
experts on the matter to look at the issues
facing educational policy makers, researchers,
and stakeholders in using evidence to best
effect. The results of their reflexions are
released in the new book, Evidence in Education: Linking Research
and Policy.
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