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4 unusual facts about Learning


Benchmarking e-learning

The Observatory is a joint initiative of ACU, the Association of Commonwealth Universities and Universities UK, the association of all UK universities.

CE-Learning

El Filibusterismo is Dr. Jose Rizal's sequel to his earlier work Noli Me Tangere.

IVUMed

To reinforce its surgical workshop training, IVUmed is developing online education tools that will present information taught at each of its workshops.

Learning

Habituation has been shown in essentially every species of animal, as well as the large protozoan Stentor coeruleus.


Alexander Barkashov

While uninterested in his work, he was passionate about reading books about great conquerors of history (especially Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan), learning karate (even setting up his own club), and making weapons (bows and daggers) with his own hands.

Anna Meares

In 2005, Meares enrolled in a Bachelor of Learning Design course at Central Queensland University, but deferred her studies to concentrate on sport.

Berlin School of Library and Information Science

The Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (in German, "Institut für Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft") offers study programmes at three levels: bachelors, masters (both a standard program and a postgraduate distant learning program), and doctoral.

Blueprint Education

Founded in 1969, Blueprint Education first offered correspondence learning to migrant worker families in Maricopa County, Arizona.

Bogus colleges in the United Kingdom

An example of a bogus college run as a scam is the Middlesbrough-based National Distance Learning College, which operated between 1999 and 2001 and offered distance learning courses in computing and business related subjects which it claimed were accredited by official qualification bodies such as BTEC and City & Guilds.

Borders College

Additionally, the college maintains secondary campuses at Hawick, and Newtown St. Boswells, and a learning centre at Jedburgh.

Building 20

Coordinated by Benson R. Snyder, Donald A. Schon and Seymour Papert, the DSRE was an innovative interdisciplinary center for “learning about learning” at the individual, institutional and societal levels.

Calvin Davis

Davis competed collegiately for the University of Arkansas, primarily as a flat 400 meter sprinter, not learning the hurdles until later.

Ciro Alegría

Born in Huamachuco District, he exposed the problems of the native Peruvians while learning about their way of life.

Clement of Ireland

Though St. Clement is no longer claimed as founder of the University of Paris, the fact remains that this remarkable Scots-Irish scholar planted the seeds of learning at Paris.

Conn Iggulden

It covers around eighty topics, from building a soapbox racer and tying knots, to learning about famous battles and how to make potassium aluminium sulphate crystals.

CSPS

The Canada School of Public Service, a government organization whose mandate is to provide a range of learning activities to build individual and organizational capacity and management excellence within the Canadian Federal Public Service.

David Eagles

He spent fifteen months learning to fly with the United States Navy, where he flew the Harvard (US Navy SNJ), the Grumman F9F Panther and the North American T-28 Trojan at Naval Air Stations Pensacola FLA and Kingsville TEXAS.

Feedforward neural network

This very recent result can be found in Peter Auer, Harald Burgsteiner and Wolfgang Maass "A learning rule for very simple universal approximators consisting of a single layer of perceptrons".

Florencio Morales Ramos

On February 23, 1989, Ramito committed suicide by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his in-law's house, after learning that a cancer he was suffering at the time had metastasized.

Great Tower Street

A public house called the Czar's Head used to stand at No. 48, so named because Peter the Great used to drink there when he was learning shipbuilding at Deptford.

Guilnar Majdalani

Guilnar who comes from a family of musicians and who started learning how to play the piano at a very tender age, does not limit herself to one music style, but she specializes in the music of Raúl di Blasio who became her idol since the day she attended one of his concerts.

Hans Guido Mutke

Only after learning about the supersonic flights of Chuck Yeager in 1947 did he attribute these phenomena to the effects of supersonic flight and claim to have broken the sound barrier—years before Yeager did.

Homo Academicus

The program features 4 Harvard University students who travel the world visiting culturally historic areas and places of learning.

Interpreter of Maladies

In this story, the obstacles and hardships that the protagonist must overcome are much more tangible, such as learning to stomach a diet of cornflakes and bananas, or boarding in a cramped YMCA.

Job evaluation

ICICI, Procter & Gamble, Infosys, Bharat Petroleum, Asian Paints, HLL and Hughes Software have certain things in common: greater opportunities to grow vertically, open communication, flexible working hours, excellent reward schemes, employee-oriented work environment, sharing with and learning from others etc.

John Rety

Initially convinced of the innocence of Stuart Christie, accused of carrying explosives to assassinate General Franco, Rety helped coordinate an international solidarity campaign, despite a personal feeling of betrayal on learning the truth.

K9.5: The Tail-Wag Tour

The player can help five characters, Ella, Gershwyn, Maxine, Riff, and Theo get ready for a concert by programming lights, cameras, and the backdrop projector while learning about parts of speech and grammar.

Kaikorai Valley College

Pupils of Kaikorai Valley College use the adjacent Kaikorai Stream for outdoor education, studying water quality and flow, learning fly fishing and monitoring waste water.

Khalil Gibran International Academy

The BBC reports that some attendees have joined to reconnect with their families' culture and homeland; others, with no Arab or Muslim background, because they believe learning the language will give them a valuable skill.

Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development

Learning to Live Together: Preventing Hatred and Violence in Child and Adolescent Development is a book written by David A. Hamburg and Beatrix Hamburg that examines the psychological aspects of how that societies teach prejudice to children and adolescents, and suggests educational strategies to prevent hatred and violence.

Manfred Hausleitner

He began learning about jazz when he signed up for the jazz institute at the Konservatiorium and Highschool in Vienna, where he studied with Erich Bachtraegl for 8 years in addition with Tino Contreiras/Mexico D.F. and Damaso Gonzales/Acapulco.

Merrillville, Indiana

The development is designated an Indiana Certified Technology Park and includes two Purdue University related facilities: Purdue University Calumet's Academic Learning Center and a business incubator/technology center operated by the Purdue Research Foundation.

Mohammad Bahmanbeigi

As the son of the tribe's chief Bahmanbeigi was well educated, attending university in Tehran and learning European languages.

Moshe Gottesman

The program currently accommodates children with everything from basic learning disabilities to Down's syndrome and various types of autism.

My Sweet Canary

In the movie, Martha Demeteri Lewis, Tomer Katz and Mehtap Demir, three young musicians, look for the most famous singers of rebetiko and especially with the intention of learning more about the music career of Roza Eskenazi, as they travel between London, Jerusalem, Corinth, Istanbul, Athens and Salonika.

Neuroscience of gender differences

Estradiol influences cognitive function, specifically by enhancing learning and memory in a dose-sensitive manner.

O'Neill Sea Odyssey

Santa Cruz City Councilmember Ryan Coonerty, gave a request for a couple of volunteers from the members of Next Space to streamline the online learning center.

Ogbomosho North

The local government serves as a home to one of Nigeria's best institution of learning, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) and it teaching hospital(still under construction).

Organizational information theory

Karl E. Weick, "The Nontraditional Quality of Organizational Learning," Organization Science 2 (1991): 116-124.

Peer learning

Cathy Davidson and David Theo Goldberg write in The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age about the potential of “participatory learning,” and a new paradigm of education that is focused on mediated interactions between peers.

Port Kaituma Community School

Port Kaituma Community School (PKCS) is a learning centre located in Port Kaituma within the Barima-Waini administrative region of Guyana.

Project Learning Tree

Project Learning Tree (PLT) was created in 1976, after passage of the first National Environmental Education Act in 1970 and celebration of the first Earth Day in 1970, raised the profile of environmental education in the United States.

Sewa Beats

Sewa Beats is an international company with its headquarters in Écublens, Switzerland, that delivers management learning through rhythm and music.

Slovenian Territorial Defence

Acceptance of the new insignia, in May 1991, however, was open the first learning center for the training of the military burden on the stamp Ig in Ljubljana and Pekre in Maribor.

St John's Grammar School

It operates from three campuses; the Junior School is adjacent to Belair National Park and the Belair railway station, the Early Learning Centre is opposite the Junior School, and the Secondary School, set up in 1998, occupies the site of the former Retreat House and St Barnabas Theological College.

The Higher Learning Foundation

The Higher Learning Foundation was a public charity located in Washington, D.C. Its goal was to improve college achievement possibilities for graduates of the District of Columbia Public Schools system (DCPS).

Thomas Kincaid

He studied medical textbooks by Thomas Willis, Thomas Sydenham and Nicholas Culpeper, as well as learning the Dutch language with the implication that he probably intended going to Leiden University for a medical degree.

Universidad de Manila

A year later, Manila City officials, including Mayor Lito Atienza, initiated the elevation of CCM to a university to promote higher learning and provide more opportunities to Manila youth for a quality education.

Van Howard

Van was born into a musical family on a crisp, windy morning in Grady, New Mexico (36 miles north of Clovis, New Mexico), Van grew up on a 'dry land' farm during The Great Depression with his older brother & sister, learning responsibility at a young age.

Vana Parva

Nalopakhyana parva recites the love story of prince Nala and princess Damayanti, who never met each other, yet fall in love with each other, after learning about each other's character, virtues, passions and beliefs through a hansa (swan).

Vincenzo Migliaro

After learning the art of wood carving at courses held by the Società Centrale Operaia Napoletana and working in the studio of Stanislao Lista, Migliaro enrolled in 1875 at the Naples Institute of Fine Arts, where his masters included Domenico Morelli.

Warwick Business School

QS World University Rankings "Top MBA 2014" ranks the Warwick MBA by distance learning 2nd in the world - just below IE Business School and above Kelley School of Business.

Weizmann

Weizmann Institute of Science, a world-renowned institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel

Yankton, South Dakota

Due to the urging of The Reverend Joseph Ward of Yankton, the General Association of Congregational Churches in Dakota Territory voted in May 1881 to establish “Pilgrim College” in Yankton, which was to be the first private institution of higher learning in Dakota.


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