Category: Education

  • Personal position on Inclusionary practices

    The campaign for inclusive education has been going on since Mann’s proposition of “common schools” in the early 19th century. The current American society is more heterogeneous hence, the rationale for inclusionary education practices. Nevertheless, what is inclusive education? Inclusion refers to a community of learners, which involves a variety of races, cultures, religion, and…

  • Game-Based Learning and 21st Century Skills

    Game-based learning (GBL) continues to gain more attention from researchers of learning theories. The study by Qian and Clark (2016) notes that games can have many positive effects on learning. The authors look at the literature that examines the link between GBL and 21st-century skills. These skills usually include “critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication”…

  • A History Textbook by George Lee: Disadvantages and Advantages

    Table of Contents Fry’s Readability Assessment Assessment Cloze Passage Results Discussion Content, Format, Utility, and Style Conclusion References Appendix 1 Fry’s Readability Assessment The Fry’s test involves taking three random quotes from a book, 100 words each, and counting the average number of sentences and syllables in them; the results are then assessed according to…

  • Historical and non-Historical Issues in Education

    Among the problems concerning education and all the issues connected with it, one can single out two basic types of problems. The first one embraces the issues which each generation encounters, no matter how far the progress has stepped, whereas the second type of problems is, vice versa, closely interconnected with the complexities of the…

  • English-Language Learners in the Modern World

    A significant number of world’s population who are interested in learning and using English as a second or alternative language have their native language which they use to communicate. In countries like the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and other Anglophonic colonial countries, although English is the national and official language, other languages like French, German,…

  • Developing Instructional Design Documents: Instructor-Led and Stand-Alone Instructions

    The difference between the Instructional Design Document for an Instructor-led Design Document and a Stand-alone Design Document is basic. While the former is guided by a physically present instructor, (sometimes an instructor may be available via video conferencing), the latter has the instructions and/or lessons undertaken by the student or trainee without the aid of…

  • How the Educational Resource Supports Learning

    The process of acquiring skills and knowledge in a given discipline requires an inclusion of other elements to accelerate its progress. Learning as a process has theories that view it from different perspectives. In learning, teachers use different resources, such as charts, blackboard, models, recorded or live radio and television programs, and computer programs to…

  • Gap of Achievement: A Critique

    All humans are endowed with inherent talents and individual capabilities which could be modeled and modulated with the right guidance at the appropriate time. Academics in the United States, with a strong social conscience, show deep concern for the academic plight of minority students and the widening gap between blacks and their white peers. “No…

  • First College, Then – Work

    Table of Contents Introduction Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Due to the growing rate of technologies in this world, so many organizations have emerged to meet today’s standard. As a result of these rapid transforms, high and qualify staff is required to meet the target of the vast growth of the organizations. It is for this…

  • Quality Planning and Analysis: International Universities

    Introduction International universities are mainly established with a view of providing higher education services to students who wish to pursue their studies at the bachelor’s level, master’s, or even PhD level. These universities offer quality research in various aspects of education, which in turn provides knowledge and important insights into varied areas of academia and…