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2012

Few would dispute that having a higher education is more important than ever to help people build positive economic futures and strengthen the knowledge economies of countries. Yet as the second issue of the OECD’s new brief series Education Indicators in Focus explains, OECD countries have...

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Learning to change: ICT in schools

2001

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Giving Knowledge for Free : The Emergence of Open Educational Resources

2007

Learning resources are often considered key intellectual property in a competitive higher education world. However … strategic decision making within higher education, to researchers and to students of new technologies. …

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Virtual Worlds : Immersive Online Platforms for Collaboration, Creativity and Learning

2011

Virtual worlds are increasingly evolving into Internet-mediated “spaces”, where large groups of people meet and interact in real-time while experiencing a shared sensation of being there together. This enables richer and more dynamic social interaction and collaboration across national and...

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Participative Web and User-Created Content : Web 2.0, Wikis and Social Networking

2007

Drawing on an expanding array of intelligent web services and applications, a growing number of people are creating, distributing and exploiting user-created content (UCC) and being part of the wider participative web. This study describes the rapid growth of UCC and its increasing role in...

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ICT and learning : supporting out-of-school youth and adults

2006

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Encouraging Student Interest in Science and Technology Studies

2008

&T students have been rising as access to higher levels of education expands in OECD economies, the relative share of S&T students …

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Reviews of National Policies for Education: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan 2009 : Students with Special Needs and those with Disabilities

2010

This OECD publication reviews the current state of education policies for children with special education needs and those with disabilities in Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan. It offers an overview of the respective country backgrounds, education systems and relevant legislation,...

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PISA 2009 Results: What Students Know and Can Do : Student Performance in Reading, Mathematics and Science (Volume I)

2010

different kinds of reading, student performance in math and science, and the potential to improve performance across the world …

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When Students Repeat Grades or Are Transferred Out of School : What Does it Mean for Education Systems?

2011

-selective and comprehensive school systems that seek to provide all students with similar opportunities, leaving it to individual … schools and teachers to meet the particular needs of every student. Other countries group students, whether in different … schools or in different classes within schools, with the aim of serving students according to their particular academic …

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