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Pontes, Elvis, Ed.; Silva, Anderson, Ed.; Guelfi, Adilson, Ed.; Kofuji, Sergio Takeo, Ed. – InTech, 2012
With the resources provided by communication technologies, E-learning has been employed in multiple universities, as well as in wide range of training centers and schools. This book presents a structured collection of chapters, dealing with the subject and stressing the importance of E-learning. It shows the evolution of E-learning, with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Virtual Classrooms, Program Effectiveness
Nguyen, Hanh thi, Ed.; Kasper, Gabriele, Ed. – National Foreign Language Resource Center at University of Hawaii, 2009
"Talk-in-interaction: Multilingual perspectives" offers original studies of interaction in a range of languages and language varieties, including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Swahili, Thai, and Vietnamese; monolingual and bilingual interactions; and activities designed for second or foreign language learning. Conducted…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Language Variation, Second Languages, Multilingualism
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1975
This volume explains and summarizes the classification system developed by the Organizaiton for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to provide a basis for collection of internationally comparable education statistics from member countries. The publication, which supplements the OECD published series describing the educational systems of…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
Fedorov, Alexander – Online Submission, 2008
This monograph analyzes the theory and practice of media education and media literacy. The book also includes the list of Russian media education literature and addresses of websites of the associations for media education.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Media Literacy, Web Sites, Models
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2008
This book provides an internationally comparable set of indicators on educational provision for students with disabilities, learning difficulties and disadvantages (DDD). It highlights the number of students involved, where they are educated--special schools, special classes or regular classes--and in what phases of education--pre-primary,…
Descriptors: Special Schools, Learning Problems, Educational Needs, Inclusive Schools
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris (France). – 1975
The present volume is one of a series intended to provide a comparative view of the educational systems of member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The purpose of the series is to assist OCCD member countries in the development of their educational statistics and to provide a basis for the collection of…
Descriptors: Classification, Comparative Analysis, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
Polette, Nancy – Teacher Ideas Press, 2007
Many of the most talented authors and artists of the past and present have shared their thoughts and their gifts with young children through picture books. Many picture books allow young children to explore important ideas and to stretch their minds far beyond rote memorization. Young children absorb knowledge at a very rapid pace. In an age of…
Descriptors: Classification, Vocabulary Development, Associative Learning, Reading Skills
Gopnik, Alison; Meltzoff, Andrew N. – 1997
This book articulates and defends the "theory theory" of cognitive and semantic development: the idea that very young children just beginning to talk are engaged in profound restructurings of several domains of their knowledge. These restructurings are analogous to theory changes. The children's early semantic development is closely tied…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Child Development, Children, Classification
Kukkonen, Pirkko – 1990
Two studies of adult aphasia, focusing on phonological disturbances, are presented. In the first study, subjects were 15 adults wit moderate aphasia and five age-matched controls. A variety of speech production and speech perception tests were administered, including tests of syllable discrimination, auditive word-picture matching, articulation,…
Descriptors: Adults, Aphasia, Articulation (Speech), Auditory Discrimination
Girden, Ellen R. – 1996
This book in intended to train students in reading a research report critically. It uses actual research articles as examples including both good and flawed studies in each category and provides interpretation and evaluation of the appropriateness of the statistical analyses in each study. Individual chapters usually include two sample studies and…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Case Studies, Classification, Comparative Analysis
Osipow, Samuel H.; Fitzgerald, Louise F. – 1996
This book describes and assesses the major theories of career choice and related research. The following are among the topics examined: history of vocational and career psychology (historical foundations; psychoanalytic conceptions of career choice; the Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma theory; Tiedeman's developmental theory; recent history…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Career Choice, Career Development, Career Education