American Garden Museum The American Garden Museum is a working online archive that celebrates American gardens and their gardeners and shows how different American gardens have evolved through history. The Museum highlights gardens big and small, urban and rural, gentle and outrageous, wildly expensive and affordable. In the 'Showcase' area of the site, a different garden or landscaped environment is profiled every couple of months. The 'Gardens' area features an interactive clickable map of the United States, where visitors may learn about prominent gardens in each state. In the Museums' Bo From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Species Profile and Threats Database This Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage database is designed to provide information about species and ecological communities listed under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. It provides information on what the species looks like, its population and distribution, habitat, movements, feeding, reproduction and taxonomic comments. The information has been compiled by summarising information from a range of sources and contributors. At this stage profiles are not available for all species and ecological communities, but will be regularly added to th From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Making an Impact on Individuals and Communities: the Effect of Adult and Community Learning Provision Today This UK report focuses on an analysis of the sector's response to the national agenda, how well programmes and courses meet the needs and interests of learners, and to what extent the sector encourages progression in learning. The development of strategies to support social inclusion and widen participation means the active promotion of equality of opportunity and diversity. The report considers how effective the sector's equality and diversity strategies are in attracting new learners from all sections of the community, and how they address inequality. The overall findings from insp From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 10:30 p.m..
Starting Point This website is the portal homepage for the Starting Point collection. This site is designed for faculty and graduate students teaching undergraduate entry-level geoscience, environmental science, or related courses. Each section describes a teaching method, why/when it is useful, how it can be implemented, and a set of examples spanning the Earth system that can be used in your class. Users can follow links to field labs, interactive lectures, investigative case-based learning, teaching with models, peer review, role-playing and Socratic questioning modules. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 7, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
Starting Point: Role-Playing Exercises This website provides an overview of different role-playing types and techniques available through the Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience project. The site describes role-playing, how to use role-playing effectively, how to teach with role playing, resources for educational role-playing and also includes useful references. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 7, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
Starting Point: Using Field Labs Starting Point's introduction to the use of field labs in entry level geoscience classes. The page is a portal to lab examples, a discussion of the benefits of a lab curriculum, and an exploration of the logistical and pedagogical considerations of using field labs. Includes a bibliography and relevant articles from the Journal of Geoscience Education. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 7, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
Starting Point: Teaching with Models This Starting Point Module contains information on teaching with models geoscience education. Modeling is fundamental to science, great for an interactive student-centered environment, and ideal for the Earth systems approach. Types of models include conceptual, physical analog, mathematical, statistical, and visualization. This page offers links, information and examples for all modeling types, including examples of different models for each geoscience discipline. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 7, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
Using Investigative Cases in Geoscience This website provides an overview of using investigative cases as teaching tools in geoscience. The site is part of the Starting Point: Teaching Entry Level Geoscience project. Information includes a description of how cases serve as springboards to student-designed investigations and how cases engage students and faculty in collaborative problem posing, problem solving, and persuasion. From MERLOT - 10 Most Recent Materials on December 7, 2004 at 12:59 p.m..
Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World - First Measures of Cross Curricular Competencies from PISA 2003 How well prepared are young adults to solve the problems that they will encounter in life beyond school, in order to fulfil their goals in work, as citizens and in further learning? For some of life's challenges, they will need to draw on knowledge and skills learned in particular parts of the school curriculum: for example, to recognise and solve a mathematics-related problem. Other problems will be less obviously linked to school knowledge, and will often require students to deal with unfamiliar situations by thinking flexibly and pragmatically. Problem Solving for Tomorrow's World From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 1:41 a.m..
Authoring Topic Maps-based Digital Course Libraries Digital course libraries are educational Web applications that contain instructional materials to assist students' learning in a specific discipline (course). To address the critical issues of findability and reusability of learning resources, the authors propose a general framework for standards-based, ontology-aware course libraries and use it to develop an environment for building, maintaining, and using such libraries. The proposed environment, TM4L (Topic Maps for Learning), is based on the new ISO standard XML Topic Maps that provides a paradigm for organising and retrieving online From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
Learning Management Systems: The Wrong Place to Start elearning November 2004 article from elearnspace by George Siemens. Learning Management Systems (LMS) are often viewed as being the starting point (or critical component) of any elearning or blended learning program. This article concludes that while this perspective is valid from a management and control standpoint, it is antithetical to the way in which most people learn today. "The very notion of 'managing learning' conflicts with how people are actually learning today. Outside of primary and secondary school, most of our learning falls into the 'topping up what we know' category. From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
Learning for Tomorrow's World: First Results from PISA 2003 Learning for Tomorrow's World: First results from PISA 2003 presents initial results from the PISA 2003 assessment. The report goes well beyond an examination of the relative standing of countries in mathematics, science and reading. It also looks at a wider range of educational outcomes that include students' motivation to learn, their beliefs about themselves and their learning strategies. From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
Facing the Future: A Focus on Mathematical Literacy Among Australian 15-year-old Students in PISA 2003 This is a summary of Australian results in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2003 study. The summary includes comparisons with other OECD countries, and implications for Australian educational policy. The PISA 2003 sample was designed to become a cohort of the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY). From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
OECD Study Ranks Australian Schools Students Amongst the World's Best The results of the second cycle of the OECDÂ’s Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) place Australian students amongst the top performing countries in the 2003 PISA study of student achievement. This press release also contains a table of student achievement by country. From EdNA Online on December 7, 2004 at 12:30 a.m..
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