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contents @ the informal education homepage
infed (the informal education homepage and encyclopaedia of informal education)

Our aim is to provide a space for people to explore the theory and practice of informal education, social action and lifelong learning.
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13 days ago by mwfogleman
Heuristic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Heuristic ( /hjʉˈrɪstɨk/; or heuristics; Greek: "Εὑρίσκω", "find" or "discover") refers to experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery. Where an exhaustive search is impractical, heuristic methods are used to speed up the process of finding a satisfactory solution. Examples of this method include using a rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, or common sense.
In more precise terms, heuristics are strategies using readily accessible, though loosely applicable, information to control problem solving in human beings and machines.
heuristics  learning  psychology  philosophy  wikipedia 
14 days ago by mwfogleman
Struggling college students benefit from class on ... learning | Science Codex
A researcher at Ohio State University has developed a course on learning and motivation strategies that actually increases the odds that struggling first-year students will graduate.

Students in academic difficulty who took the "Learning and Motivation Strategies" course in their first quarter at Ohio State were about 45 percent more likely to graduate within six years than similar students who didn't take the class.
education  learning  motivation 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
smarthistory
SmARThistory is an edited online art history resource to augment or replace traditional art history texts. For a given artwork, smARThistory brings together podcasts, video clips, images, links to other resources, and commentary, providing a rich context for the work. Indexed by timeline, artistic style, artist and theme.
reference  video  education  learning  history  web2.0  inspiration  visualization  painting  archive  blogs  teaching  interactive  webdesign  resource  art  podcast  timeline  resources  cool  research  arthistory  museum 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Overcoming Bias: Planning Fallacy
A similar finding is that experienced outsiders, who know less of the details, but who have relevant memory to draw upon, are often much less optimistic and much more accurate than the actual planners and implementers. So there is a fairly reliable way to fix the planning fallacy, if you're doing something broadly similar to a reference class of previous projects. Just ask how long similar projects have taken in the past, without considering any of the special properties of this project. Better yet, ask an experienced outsider how long similar projects have taken. You'll get back an answer that sounds hideously long, and clearly reflects no understanding of the special reasons why this particular task will take less time. This answer is true. Deal with it.
planning  timeboxing  lifehacks  productivity  software  learning  psychology  science  life  blog  article  management  project  projectmanagement  time  bias  cognitive  scheduling  agile  schedule  smart  fallacy 
january 2009 by mwfogleman
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