How do animals represent space, time, number and rate? From insects to humans, Charles Gallistel explores the sophisticated computations performed in these ubiquitous yet neglected domains of animal learning. He proposes new and imaginative hypotheses about brain and mental processes and provides original insights about animal behavior using a computational-representational framework that is an exciting alternative to traditional associative theories of learning. Gallistel argues compellingly that experimental psychologists should begin to view the phenomena of learning within a framework that utilizes as the proper unit of analysis the computation and storage of a quantity, rather than the formation of an association that has been the basis of traditional learning theory.

The prevalent on-demand services that are available in other walks of life must be adapted to the education and learning field if training departments are to be successful in the new millennium. As our affinity for technology and on-demand service and satisfaction grows, this culture will permeate itself in other parts of life. In particular, learners will demand equal capability for their personal and professional development. Training and development practitioners must take action now to provide learners with what they will soon want regularly – On-Demand Learning!

This book provides managers, human resource specialists, and training personnel with a forewarning of the impending learning revolution along with ideas for developing new learning tools to meet the demand for self-service learning. It includes a comprehensive profile of the on-demand learner and a checklist for action for purveyors of learning. It identifies strategies to maximize the effectiveness of on-demand learning solutions and provides ways to match learners with solutions that work. It will also teach you how to develop on-demand learning solutions in a variety of media to facilitate learning in the digital age.

In Learning to Think Strategically, author Julia Sloan presents a previously unexamined account of the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved – taking learning from the academic to the everyday. This book is an original primer on how successful strategists learn to think strategically. This authoritative book traces the history of strategy, differentiates strategic thinking from planning, describes the influence of culture, streamlines the roles of rationality and intuition, and identifies five key attributes for learning to think strategically. Learning to Think Strategically asserts that learning is the critical link to strategic thinking. Learning is a “conversion tool” that can transform thinking strategically into a sustainable competitive advantage.
* Part of the leading edge New Frontiers in Learning series
* Application of critical thinking, creativity, reflection, dialogue, testing and reaction to the process of strategic thinking.
* Incorporates activities & exercises that strengthen three levels of learning – instrumental, communicative & transfomative.

Debate about organization and workplace learning has now moved on from viewing learning as a way of fostering control. This book suggests that by focusing on learning as a way of living, the needs of production can be reconciled with the need for employees to have satisfying engagement with their work.

“I think a real strength of the book is the use of the case studies to ground the points made and to offer in-depth insights into practice.”
Jackie Marsh, University of Sheffield, UK
This exciting book considers the nature of young children’s lives and how this can, and should, inform early childhood education in practical ways. It examines:

* What is it like for young children to learn in the 21st century?
* How can we link this to new and innovative ways of providing relevant and engaging learning contexts for young children?
* What it means to be multiliterate in the 21st century

The book explores how learning and engagement with ideas can be extended through the use of new technologies, describing how information and communications technologies enable young people to extend the boundaries of their learning and social interactions.

`Learning to Read Critically in Teaching and Learning offers a contribution to the debates on curriculum and pedagogy. The title itself is especially noteworthy since it indicates quite clearly that the reader is being encouraged both to learn and to develop their critical faculties on the topic of teaching and learning. This is a clever multi-layering of meaning that reflects the aims of the book extremely well’ – School Leadership & ManagementThis book combines a teaching text with exemplary reports of research and a literature review by international scholars. Part One offers ideas on: how to become a critical reader and self-critical writer of literature; how to apply these insights in planning a written assignment, dissertation or thesis.The student is provided with a framework for the critical analysis of any text and shown how to incorporate it in a literature review.Part Two presents accounts of leading-edge research from well-known contributors, offering insights into key issues in the field of teaching and learning. These accounts reflect diverse theoretical approaches, national contexts, topics, research designs, methods of data collection and analysis, and styles of reporting. The student is invited to practice literature review skills by applying the critical analysis questions to any research report.Part Three is a critical literature review of a substantive issue in teaching and learning. It shows how a high-quality literature review may be constructed and addresses key issues in the field. This book is essential for students on research-based masters and doctorate courses in teaching and learning; and for students undertaking research training in the humanities and social sciences.

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The buzz phrase of the moment in the world of training is is “blended learning” but…
* What exactly is it?
* How can it help?
* How does it relate to e-learning?
* Is it right for your organization?
* How can you implement it?

These questions and more are answered in this up-to-the-minute guide to the latest trend in training.

Essentially, blended learning is a workable solution that allows trainers and staff developers to integrate online learning with a broad range of more traditional learning techniques. Demonstrating how old and new methods of improving staff performance and learning can work seamlessly together to give better results, this book is the ideal guide to creating a new way of training. In her usual practical style Kaye Thorne shows how the concept of blended learning can be applied most effectively to help you take the first steps towards developing a blended training program. Case studies from a wide variety of organizations (from Rolls Royce to small businesses) illustrate what is emerging as the new (post-digital revolution) training of the future.

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The Learning Revolution presents a life-long learning program program for the human mind. Readers will learn how to read four books a day and remember what they read; the basics of a foreign language in four to eight weeks; how youngsters five years behind in their reading age are catching up in under ten weeks; how to enrich a child’s intelligence in the vital years from birth to eight; how to keep on learning throughout the whole of life; how to catch up at school even if they start behind others; how to think for successful ideas in business, school, and life; how to find their own best learning, thinking and working styles; how to get students high on education thereby avoiding drugs, gangs and crime; and the fun-fast way to transform education at school, work and home. The Learning Revolution is highly recommended reading for all parents and care-givers, and a “must” for anyone involved in homeschooling as well as formal classroom instruction. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

World record sales! 7.5 million copies sold in China in 25. That makes it by far the world’s biggest selling books, outside the Bible, for 1999! This new edition, now available in America, is completely revised and tells the story of the learning revolution that is need to match the revolution in communications and technology.

It presents the world’s best research on how every one of us, at any age, can make that revolution happen now. And it tells it in a language that is as easy to read as The Reader’s Digest.

Among the topics covered:
* How to learn anything much faster, better and more easily.
* How to read four books a day and remember what you read.
* How to learn the basics of a new language in 8 weeks.
* How to bridge a 5 year reading gap in 10 weeks.
* How to read and write before starting school.
* How to make the most of your amazing brain.
* How to Mind Map your way to better grades.
* How to create successful, profitable ideas.
* How to use the world’s best learning technology.