Richard Felder's Home Page - Resources in Science and Engineering Education

Many education-related materials, including papers on learning styles and active and cooperative learning, and an "Index of Learning Styles" questionnaire

http://www.ldpride.net/learningstyles.MI.htm

General information on learning styles and multiple intelligences, interactive tests, practical suggestions and many references and links.

http://www.carla.umn.edu/strategies/index.html

The Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota (USA) has conducted learning strategy research and developed a number of teacher resources for Strategies-Based Instruction, which is a learner-centered approach to teaching that integrates strategy training with embedded strategy practice in the foreign language classroom. The site includes information on the foundational research done on learner strategies, an annotated bibliography on strategies, working papers, and more.

http://www.ku-crl.org/sim/

The Strategic Instruction Model, designed by the Center for Research on Learning (University of Kansas (USA) is about promoting effective teaching and learning of critical content in schools.

http://www.newhorizons.org/strategies/front_strategies.html

This area of the website offers information on some of the best researched and the most widely implemented methods of helping all students to learn more successfully.

http://lc.ust.hk/~ailasc/

The official site of the Scientific Commission on Learner Autonomy of the International Association of Applied Linguistics.

Learner Autonomy in Practice

by Barbro Blomquist and Ingrid Sandström, Umea, Sweden - "Video and report from a classroom floor in compulsory school"

Hayo Reinders Home Page

Learner Autonomy, Self-Access Language Learning, CALL, Civil Society & Arabic

Teacher Development and Autonomus Learning Special Interest Group  

of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language - Poland

http://independentlearning.org/ILA/

The Independent Learning Association is an organisation for language practitioners and researchers working in or otherwise interested in independent language learning. Specific areas of interest include: fostering Learner Autonomy through classroom practice, supporting Self-Directed Learning, providing Self-Access Language Learning facilities, Teacher Autonomy

Learner Independence SIG (TESOL Arabia, United Arab Emirates)

A discussion list and a website with a wide range of articles, links, activities, research and ideas.

http://www.learnerautonomy.org/

The Learner Autonomy Special Interest Group of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

Learner Autonomy in Initial Modern Language Teacher Education

This web site contains information about material for initial language teacher training developed in a LINGUA project with the above title between 1998 and 2001. The objective of the project was to produce course modules with a learner autonomy focus in the four language skills and in intercultural competence skills.

http://nadabs.tripod.com/motivation/

An accurate summary of motivation theories, including evaluation tools and pedagogical implications, with several references and links.

Funderstanding

Livingston, NJ, USA

How learning potential is enhanced: explore topics like theories of learning and schools of thought, history of educational systems, emotional intelligence, educational reform, and others.

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