Social Aspects of Online Learning

Education In South Africa ... In 2010, it had 12.3 million learners, 386,000 teachers and around 48,000 schools (8 teachers per school on average) – including 390 special needs schools and 1,000 registered private schools. Officially, primary schools comprise Grade 1 to 7 and High schools Grade 8 to 12...

Education ... Systems of schooling Systems of schooling involve institutionalized teaching and learning in relation to a curriculum, which itself is established according to a predetermined purpose of the schools in the system...

Philosophy Of Education ... Philosophy of education also should not be confused with philosophy education, the practice of teaching and learning the subject of philosophy...

History Of Education ... In pre-literate societies, education was achieved orally and through observation . The young learned informally from their parents, extended family and grand parents. At later stages of their lives, they received instruction of a more structured and formal nature, imparted by people not necessarily related, in the context of initiation, religion or ritual...

School Discipline ... An obedient student is in compliance with the school rules and codes of conduct. These rules may, for example, define the expected standards of clothing, timekeeping, social behaviour and work ethic...

Online Tutoring ... This is often known as e-moderation, defined as the facilitation of the achievement of goals of independent learning, learner autonomy, self-reflection, knowledge construction, collaborative or group-based learning, online discussion, transformative learning and communities of practice... These functions of moderation are based on constructivist or social-constructivist principles of learning...

Romanian Educational System ... Kindergarten is optional under the age of six. At the age of six, children must join the "preparatory school year", which is mandatory in order to enter the first grade...

Sensitization ... Sensitization is thought to underlie both adaptive as well as maladaptive learning processes in the organism... LTP of AMPA receptors has been proposed as a potential mechanism underlying memory and learning in the human brain...

Virtual School ... Students were expected to study their learning material independently and, in some cases, meet with a proctor to be tested...

Education In The People's Republic Of China ... In 2003 China supported 1,552 institutions of higher learning (colleges and universities) and their 725,000 professors and 11 million students (see List of universities in the People's Republic of China)...

Curriculum ... In formal education, a curriculum ( /kəˈrɪkjʉləm/; plural: curricula /kəˈrɪkjʉlə/ or curriculums) is the set of courses, and their content, offered at a school or university. As an idea, curriculum stems from the Latin word for race course, referring to the course of deeds and experiences through which children grow to become mature adults...

Foreign Language ... For example, a child learning English from her English father and Japanese at school in Japan can speak both English and Japanese, but neither is a foreign language to her...

Educational Psychology ... Educational psychology both draws from and contributes to cognitive science and the learning sciences...

School ... In addition to these core schools, students in a given country may also attend schools before and after primary and secondary education. Kindergarten or pre-school provide some schooling to very young children (typically ages 3–5)...

Homeschooling ... Homeschooling is a legal option for parents in many countries, allowing them to provide their children with a learning environment as an alternative to public or private schools outside the home...

Medieval University ... The first institutions generally considered to be universities were established in Italy, France, Spain and England in the late 11th and the 12th centuries for the study of arts, law, medicine, and theology. These universities evolved from much older Christian cathedral schools and monastic schools, and it is difficult to define the date at which they became true universities, although the lists of studia generalia for higher education in Europe held by the Vatican are a useful guide...

Second-language Acquisition ... To separate the academic discipline from the learning process itself, the terms second-language acquisition research, second-language studies, and second-language acquisition studies are also used... The term acquisition was originally used to emphasize the subconscious nature of the learning process, but in recent years learning and acquisition have become largely synonymous... Most SLA researchers see bilingualism as being the end result of learning a language, not the process itself, and see the term as referring to native-like fluency...

Machine Learning ... In addition to performance bounds, computational learning theorists study the time complexity and feasibility of learning... In computational learning theory, a computation is considered feasible if it can be done in polynomial time... There are many similarities between machine learning theory and statistics, although they use different terms...

Learning ... The study of how learning occurs is part of neuropsychology, educational psychology, learning theory, and pedagogy... Learning may occur as a result of habituation or classical conditioning, seen in many animal species, or as a result of more complex activities such as play, seen only in relatively intelligent animals... There is evidence for human behavioral learning prenatally, in which habituation has been observed as early as 32 weeks into gestation, indicating that the central nervous system is sufficiently developed and primed for learning and memory to occur very early on in development...

List Of Medieval Universities ... It is common to include the former and exclude the latter from lists of "Medieval universities", but some historians have disputed this as arbitrary and unreflective of the state of higher learning in Europe...