Education for innovation and independent learning / Ronaldo Mota, David Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mota.

Scott, David, 1951- author.

Contributor:

Ronaldo..

Series:

Gale eBooks

Standardized Title:

Educando para inovação e aprendizagem independente English.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational innovations.

Independent study.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 159 pages) : color illustrations

Edition:

1版ition

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Elsevier, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Our principal concern in this book is to understand three important ideas: learning, technology and innovation, and to examine these ideas and the relationships between them in situ; that is, we examine a number of cases of learning technologies in action in two countries, England and Brazil. The purpose of our study is to provide an explanation of the means to, and constraints on, improvements to educational policies and practices, with particular reference to innovation. We have a plethora of theoretical models that in attempting to deal with causal relations usually come to the conclusio

Contents:

Front Cover; Education for Innovation and Independent Learning; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Introduction; 2 Educational Settings; 2.1 Internationalization; 2.2 Education in Brazil and England; 2.2.1 Brazil; 2.2.2 England and Wales; Notes; 3 Innovation; 3.1 The Concept of Innovation; 3.2 Innovation and Sustainability; 3.3 Knowledge-development; 3.4 Knowledge-development and Innovation; 3.5 Innovation Strategies in Brazil; 3.6 Innovation Strategies in England; Notes; 4 The Third Educational Revolution; 4.1 The School

4.2 The Book4.3 Digital Technologies; Note; 5 Education and Innovation; 5.1 Curriculum Matters; 5.2 Teachers as Designers; 5.3 Massive Open Online Courses; 5.4 Teaching for Innovation; Notes; 6 Independent Learning: A Strategy for Innovation; 6.1 Learning Theories; 6.2 Learning Frameworks; 6.3 Learning Sets or Sequences; 6.4 Independent Learning; 6.5 Digital Teaching and Learning Approaches; 6.6 Learning Skills; Notes; 7 Case Studies in Brazil; 7.1 The Digital Educational Project in Piraí-RJ; 7.2 C.E.S.A.R. and the 3Es: Engineering, Education and Entrepreneurship

7.3 The Veduca Educational Experiment7.4 Start-up Neoprospecta; 7.5 The Lemann Center for Educational Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Notes; 8 Case Studies in England; 8.1 Teaching Shakespeare at Stratford-upon-Avon; 8.2 The Extended Project at Rugby; 8.3 Team Engineering at the Open University; 8.4 Word-based Learning at the Institute of Education; 8.5 Think, Play and do at Imperial College; Notes; 9 Conclusions; 9.1 Creativity and Innovation; 9.2 New Technologies and New Pedagogies; 9.3 Educational Reform Processes; Note; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 14, 2014).

ISBN:

9780128009918

0128009918

OCLC:

878127576