Rising strong

"With her 2010 TED talk on the power of vulnerability (over 18 million views), her bestselling books on the transformative gifts of shame and vulnerability, and her inspiring call...

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How we learn : the surprising truth about when, where, and why it happens

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Fluent in 3 months : the radical new way that anyone, at any age, can learn to speak any language from anywhere in the world

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Fast easy way to learn a language

Fast, Easy Way to Learn a Language is essential reading for anyone studying a language at school, for business, travel or just for pleasure. Well-known inspirational teacher Bill H...

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Study skills For dummies

Students need to learn to manage their time, organise their studies, understand, learn, and convey a lot of information – and they need to learn to do it quickly. Whether you’re fr...

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Boys and girls learn differently! : a guide for teachers and parents

A thoroughly revised edition of the classic resource for understanding gender differences in the classroom In this profoundly significant book, author Michael Gurian has revised...

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A guide to authentic e-Learning

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21st century skills : learning for life in our times

The new building blocks for learning in a complex world This important resource introduces a framework for 21st Century learning that maps out the skills needed to survive and th...

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Why don't students like school? : a cognitive scientist answers questions about how the mind works and what it means for your classroom

Kids are naturally curious, but when it comes to school it seems like their minds are turned off. Why is it that they can remember the smallest details from their favorite televisi...

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Music, language, and the brain

In the first comprehensive study of the relationship between music and language from the standpoint of cognitive neuroscience, Aniruddh D. Patel challenges the widespread belief th...

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Understanding problem-based learning

Problem-based learning (PBL) arrived in Finnish higher education when the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tampere began to implement the principles of PBL during the 1990s...

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How we learn : learning and non-learning in school and beyond

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Pedagogical Guidelines for Simulator Training

What should be taken into consideration in planning, organizing and executing simulator-based training? How should one instruct with the help of a simulator? The present book exami...

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Reconceptualising Lifelong Learning: Feminist Interventions

Arising from work by the Gender and Lifelong Learning Group of the Gender and Education Association, this book presents reconceptualisations of lifelong learning. It argues that th...

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Preparing for Blended e-Learning

Blended and online learning skills are rapidly becoming essential for effective teaching and learning in universities and colleges. Covering theory where useful but maintaining an...

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Rethinking Pedagogy for a Digital Age: Designing and Delivering e-Learning

Incorporating a variety of contexts – face-to-face, self-directed, blended and distance learning modes – this book examines different perspectives on effectively designing and deli...

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Project managing e-learning : a handbook for successful design, delivery and management

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Learning maps and memory skills

The learning maps is a note-taking technique, useful when planning, problem solving, summarizing and brain-storming. The new edition provides step-by-step guidance on mastering the...

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Adult Learning in the Digital Age: Information Technology And The Learning Society

Learning with technology is seen by many countries as a way of improving their collective human ‘capital’, and of offering opportunities to those currently excluded from mainstream...

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e-Economy: Rhetoric or Business Reality?

As dot.com became dot.bomb, the hype that surrounded the meteoric growth of the network economy has given way to realism or even scepticism about the potential of ICT as a source o...

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