Educational innovations in agroecology: Learning-centred open-ended cases

Open-ended song learning in a hummingbird.

Vocal learning in birds is typically restricted to a sensitive period early in life, with the few exceptions reported in songbirds and parrots. Here, we present evidence of open-ended vocal learning in a hummingbird, the third avian group with vocal learning. We studied vocalizations at four leks of the long-billed hermit Phaethornis longirostris during a four-year period. Individuals produce a...

Open-ended category learning for language acquisition

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Book Review: Agricultural Systems: Agroecology and Rural Innovations for Development

Scaffolding in Open-Ended Learning Environments (OELEs) Workshop Co-Chairs:

Digital games have the potential to make unique and powerful contributions to science education efforts. Much of that potential, however, remains unrealized, partly because powerful games for science learning need to synergistically augment commercial game design conventions and principles with design principles specific to the goals and nature of science learning and research on science learni...

Learning in Open-Ended Technology Environmefi s: Problems and Issues

This paper critically analyzes problems and issues related to learning with open, technology-based environments. Theoretical assumptions that underlie learning in this type of environment are clarified in the first section. The second section addresses imitations in adaptive capabilities of technology, including: the learner relies upon feedback that is contingent upon learner actions; when lea...