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

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 pu...

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Main Author: Mota, Ronaldo (Author)
Other Authors: Scott, David (Translator)
Other title:Educando para inovação e aprendizagem independente. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Portuguese
Published: Amsterdam : Elsevier, 2014.
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Table of 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.