In the long-term, I do believe MOOCs are a serious threat to 2nd and 3rd-rate schools, who can be replaced by automated-large scale teaching.
The researchers examined 42 documents in both English and Chinese, including proficiency scales, teaching syllabuses, curriculum requirements, test specifications and rating scales, resulting in 1240 descriptors.
Descriptors are collected from both teachers' description of students' listening ability (with a sample of 159 teachers and 475 students at different educational stages and 119 professionals) and existing documents, both in English and Chinese, such as proficiency scales, teaching syllabuses, curriculum requirements, test specifications and rating scales.
Experience of productions on this scale has taught Willner that it's best to begin with a set-list, and then approach artists to realise that repertoire.
Like Jeff Jarvis (but on a smaller scale), I teach journalism.
Building solar installations on this scale will teach lessons about manufacturing, installation and maintenance that will help solar, perhaps within a decade, bring power generation costs, currently running roughly 22 cents per kwh, down to the point where solar can compete with wind, at 10 cents or less.
The starlings in flight who collectively forage for food and chase away predators demonstrate cooperation on a massive scale, and teach an important lesson: that the more eyes and brains on a challenge, the more secure we will be, and the more effective, even beautiful, the outcome.
Christine Blower, the general secretary of NUT, said: "It is difficult to see how a 25% increase in the primary floor standard between 2010 and 2016 could be realistically achieved without wide-scale teaching to the test and other inappropriate drilling techniques.
Impact: The math department started using more SCALE-UP style teaching.
