In 1986 she received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study " Autonomous Learning Materials for Pascal Courses " and studied programming instruction as an approach to learning complex problem-solving skills.
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In India and elsewhere, the " University of the Third Age " ( U3A ) provides an example of the almost spontaneous emergence of autonomous learning groups accessing the expertise of their own members in the pursuit of knowledge and shared experience.
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There are also 31 specialization programmes and five master s programmes : Master in Education, Master in Process Management and Direction, Master in Business Administration ( MBA ), Master of Nursing, and Master in English Language Teaching Autonomous Learning Environments.
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Furthermore the layout and graphics of "'Grammar Explorer "'are pedagogically tailored with a view to supporting autonomous learning; among the main features are colour coding of lexis and central concepts as well as horizontal and vertical structuring of material.
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According to neo-Vygotskian psychology, which supports the idea of autonomous learning, the development of a students learning skills is never entirely separable from the content of their learning, seeing as learning a new language is quite different to learning any other subject.
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The Grundtvig programme encompasses all types of learning, whether these take place in the'formal'or'non-formal'system of education for adults, or in more'informal'ways, such as autonomous learning, community learning or experiential learning.
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Montessori's theory and philosophy of education were influenced by the work of Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, �douard S�guin, Friedrich Fr�bel, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, and her model emphasized autonomous learning, sensory exploration and training children in physical activities, empowering their senses and thoughts by exposure to sights, smells, and tactile experiences, and later, problem solving.
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However, ( he wrote, with a sweeter pen-and in a more accomodating, pastel, style ) I do think that projects, research ventures and study / reading time spent outside class hours, but directed by either the teacher or the demands of class work, is both a valuable exercise and an essential ingredient in the development of autonomous learning skills, ones which will equip the individual long after the school gates have closed behind them for the last time . ( There, that was almost " Emily Dickinson ", wasn't it ? ) When we set our students all this homework, who is supposed to mark it?
