Monday, January 18, 2016

Instructional materials


Virtual Learning

A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) is a system for delivering learning materials to students via the web. These systems include assessment, student tracking, collaboration and communication tools. They can be accessed both on and off-campus, meaning that they can support students' learning outside the lecture hall 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Blooms Taxonomy


Convocation


University Website

Correlated Curriculum



¨      The words correlation and interrelation mean practically the same thing.
¨      Correlation is the recognition and establishment of relationships among the various subject areas or fields.
¨      Correlation refers to horizontal relationships―relationships on the same grade level between two subjects, or among all the subjects.
¨      Correlation, in short, is our first logical step toward relating classroom activities and topics to real life.
            The secondary schools have certain major aims. In order to achieve these aims pupils should be provided an opportunity to engage in certain planned experiences, designed specifically to achieve the aims. Let us assume that the three major aims of the secondary schools are:
1.      To discover the needs, interests, and capacities of each individual, and on that basis to seek to develop the individuality of the pupil to the maximum degree.
2.      To develop the individual as a desirable social being and a good citizen of the home, school, community, region, nation, and the world.
3.      To discover vocational needs, interests, and aptitudes, to assist the pupil in a wise choice based on these needs, interests, and aptitudes, and to help him prepare for the vocation of his choice.
            Now suppose we broke each of these major aims down into several hundred smaller and more manageable aims. The next step would be to list all of the experiences that would help in the achievement of the aims. After listing the hundreds or thousands of experiences, and trying to classify them, we would find that some could be conveniently grouped together and called Mathematics. Others would be so closely related that we might group them together and call them Science. Others we could group loosely together and classify as National Language, still others as English Language.
            But we would find, in trying to assign experiences to one field or another, that there would be great overlappings. We would often be troubled about whether to assign one certain experience to Science or to Social Studies. There are no clear criteria as to which subject field a certain experience should be assigned to. There can be no rigid inflexible boundaries between subjects. Education will be more realistic if, in each subject, the borderlines between it and other subject are considered very flexible, so that pupils' experiences in accordance with their needs can be planned without undue attention being paid to whether or not the territory of another field has been invaded. In other words, English language textbooks and other curriculum materials may draw upon stories, poems, essays, articles, and other types of presentations from History, Social Studies, Science, Art, Music, or any other field.
¨      Correlation implies, indeed makes it essential, that teachers must work closely together to plan pupil experiences designed to achieve the major aims of education.
 In order to secure really effective correlation, it is necessary to provide a free period each day during which teachers may meet together to discuss the work their classes have done, to plan and prepare

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The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). It was conceived by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) of the U.S. government in 1969 and was first known as the ARPANet